{"id":66334,"date":"2026-07-15T07:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T07:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/former-sarpanch-killed-after-boulder-hits-car-on-jammu-srinagar-highway\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T07:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T07:12:08","slug":"former-sarpanch-killed-after-boulder-hits-car-on-jammu-srinagar-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/former-sarpanch-killed-after-boulder-hits-car-on-jammu-srinagar-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Sarpanch Killed After Boulder Hits Car on Jammu-Srinagar Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former sarpanch was killed after a boulder rolled down a hillside and struck his car on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway near Banihal in Ramban district on Tuesday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased was identified as Mohammad Iqbal Tantray, former sarpanch of Seri village in Ramban district.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, Tantray was returning home after dropping a person in Ramban town when a shooting stone hit his vehicle near Trishul Morh on the highway.<\/p>\n<p>The boulder struck him on the head, causing critical injuries. He was immediately shifted to the District Hospital Ramban, where doctors declared him brought dead.<\/p>\n<p>Police have registered a case and initiated an investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The death of Tantray has cast a pall of gloom over Seri village and other parts of Ramban district, with local residents expressing shock over the tragedy and remembering him as a respected public representative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former sarpanch was killed after a boulder rolled down a hillside and struck his car on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway near Banihal in Ramban district&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66334","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-jammu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}