Overview

• Police converted an inquest into FIR No. 152/2025 under BNS sections 103(1)/109/332(b) and the Arms Act after forensic and digital review indicated a targeted firing, not a road crash.
• The death of Mehjabeen Akil Sheikh on August 29 is now attributed by investigators to gunshot wounds rather than a traffic accident.
• Jammu SSP Joginder Singh suspended SHO Inspector Deepak Pathania, Sub-Inspector Wasim Bhatti and Sub-Inspector Rohit Sharma over handling of the case.
• StateTimes reports the probe has been handed to the J&K Crime Branch’s Special Branch, which is pursuing the unidentified shooter and examining seized clothes, CCTV, call records, internet activity and a videographed post-mortem.
• Local reporting says treating hospitals recorded injuries consistent with stabbing and no bullets were recovered, and investigators are questioning the deceased’s sister, another woman and a physiotherapy centre operator to reconcile discrepancies.