The 21-year-old man was killed during clashes in Anantnag district southeast of the main city of Srinagar, in which police said scores were injured.
There have been weeks of deadly unrest in the state.
“Naseer had a zero degree pellet injury near his heart. That means he was shot from very close range,” an unnamed medical superintendent at Seer Hamdan hospital in Anantnag said of the victim.
Federal Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Monday police and troops would use chilli-based shells instead of ones filled with birdshot to quell the unrest after hundreds of civilians sustained serious eye injuries in the clashes.
The government has been coming under growing pressure over the level of casualties in Kashmir during the protests against Indian rule, which broke out after the death of rebel leader Burhan Wani on July 8 in a gunbattle with soldiers.
More than 70 civilians have been killed and thousands injured in the worst violence to hit the Muslim-majority state since 2010.
The metal pellets or birdshot fired from the pump-action shotguns rarely result in deaths, but can often blind victims if the fragments hit them in the eye.
Authorities lifted a curfew in most parts of the territory late last month, but schools, shops and many banks remain closed while residents struggle with a communications blackout.
In New Delhi, a delegation of Muslim clerics of the Barelvi school met Singh on the Kashmir issue and urged him to lead a delegation of Sufi scholars to the state while offering to take out a peace march there themselves.
“We met Home Minister Rajnath Singh and proposed that he should lead a delegation of Sufi scholars and clerics to Kashmir.
We would try to instil some sense in the minds of stone-pelting youths,” Maulana Ansar Raza of Garib Nawaz Foundation, who led the delegation, said.
Raza said the 60-odd Sufis from various khanqahs across India plan to take out a peace march in Kashmir with the Qur’an in one hand and the ‘Tiranga’ (national tricolour) in the other.
He stressed that Sufism is the way forward in Kashmir.
“Sufism is the path of love and forgiveness. We would speak with the stone-pelting youth, and would try to convince them in the light of Qur’an, Hadith and traditions of great Sufi saints to abandon violence,” Raza said.
He, however, dismissed the prospect of any talks with separatists.
“How can we talk to people who are raising ‘Pakistan zindabad’ slogans? We are very clear that we would not go at their doorstep only to be turned away by them, like they did to a handful of people recently,” he said.
Calling the members of all-party delegation who went to meet Hurriyat leaders on Monday as “chai khor”, Raza said that they should not have broken away from the delegation and gone to meet the separatists.
“Why should we go to them? Kashmiri kahwa tou Dilli me bhi milta hai (Kashmiri kahwa is available in Delhi too),” he said.
