According to the police, the father had wrongly accused a Muslim neighbour of the abduction following which the neighbour and his associates attacked and beat the man to death.
The Kargil war took place between May and July of 1999 in Jammu and Kashmir's Kargil district. The conflict was orchestrated by the then Pakistan army chief General Pervez Musharraf without the knowledge of the then Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.