Srinagar, May 7 -- Srinagar- Haji Mohammad Sultan Mir, father of senior police officer DIG Imtiyaz Hussain Mir, passed away on Thursday after a brief illness, family sources said. He was a resident of Iskanderpora in central Kashmir's Budgam district.

Family members said he breathed his last at the Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Soura earlier in the day, where he had been undergoing treatment. He was later laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard in his native village, where a large number of people attended the funeral prayers. Funeral prayers were led by prominant cleric Agha Syed Muhammad Hadi al Musawi.

News of his demise was widely mourned across official, social and public circles. Senior police officers, civ...