Srinagar, May 19 -- Jammu and Kashmir lieutenant governor (LG) Manoj Sinha on Sunday said security forces have been given a free hand to bring perpetrators of south Kashmir militant attacks to justice as a large gathering of people participated in the funeral of former sarpanch Aijaz Ahmad Sheikh who was killed in Shopian.

Amid the election season, Kashmir was rattled by two back to back militant attacks on Saturday in south Kashmir's Shopian and Pahalgam in which Sheikh, who was a BJP worker, was killed and a tourist couple from Jaipur was injured.

Police said militants shot the former sarpanch in Harpura village of Shopian while a man and a woman, identified as Tabrez and Farah, of Rajasthan, were injured after militants opened fire a...