A resident of Indira Nagar Srinagar Satpal Nischal living there for the last 50 years and doing the business of a gold smith of moderate means was shot dead at point blank range by some militants in his shop at Sarai Bala. This cold blooded murder raises many questions which need to be answered. Does anyone particularly from any place or area but having been not a state subject, deserve to be killed in Kashmir.? If his only fault, as analysed in preliminary investigations by the Police, was his obtaining the new Domicile Certificate for which he was all entitled to, is a matter to be felt concerned about and dealt with sternly. Why could the police not get prior information about such designs and mechanisations of some elements working at the behest of their mentors from across the border? At least, such dastardly attack on the victim who was past his 65 years of age, could have been pre-empted. Were the CCTVs not in functional mode so as to record the movements of the killers so tha