Srinagar, June 9 (IANS): An Organisation of the migrant Kashmiri Pandits on Tuesday demanded a judicial probe into the murder of a minority community Sarpanch in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district.

Forty-year old Ajay Pandita, a village Sarpanch, was gunned down by terrorists on Monday evening.

Satish Mahaldar, Chairman of Reconciliation, Return and Rehabilitation of Migrant Pandits said in a statement, "Ajay Pandita was living in the valley because of his unbounded love for his motherland and his concerns about the village he was living in".

Demanding a judicial probe into the murder, Mahaldar said, "Pandita's fight as a representative of the minority community had given hope to the minority community and his martyrdom shall not go in vain.

"Those who killed him might have thought their goal will be achieved. But, they are forgetting that by killing their own people they are only doing disservice to Kashmir.

"By targeting and killing their Kashmiri brethren, and especially those who are working for the poor people, the killers are being dishonest to their own motherland.

"I appeal for shunning of the gun and to share grievances, those can be fought together to achieve the objective of peace and brotherhood".

The murder of the Sarpanch has been widely condemned in Kashmir, both by political leaders and the common man.