Srinagar, Sept. 22 -- Former Director General of Police (DGP) Jammu and Kashmir Ghulam Jeelani Pandit, died last evening in Srinagar, officials today said.
A large number of people including officials attended his funeral today and was laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard at Jamalata in old Srinagar.
He was the fourth chief of J&K Police who assumed office on May 21, 1987.
J&K Police mourned the death of its former chief.
J&K DGP Nalin Prabhat, expressed grief over the demise of Pandit. He prayed for peace to the departed soul and strength to the bereaved family.
Bureaucrat turned politician Naeem Akhtar said Pandit was only the second and the last local Muslim ever to head the state police in its over 100year history.
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