SRINAGAR: Police on Friday claimed to have arrested three persons involved in stalking of passengers and bashing them after checking voting marks on their fingers. Others involved in the offence have been identified and will soon be arrested, the police said.
Deputy Inspector General North Kashmir Range, Ghulam Hasan Bhat said that police have identified the groups who thrashed people for voting in recently concluded parliament election. We have identified scores of people and so far three youth have been arrested in this regard. We have started a manhunt to nab the others, Bhat said adding nobody would be allowed to harass the peace loving people.
Meanwhile the thrashing of voters by unidentified youth have sparked controversy as according to reports most of the people who face fury of the agitated youth in Sopore and Baramulla were the residents of Handwara and Kupwara.
CNS while quoting eyewitnesses reported that scores of people on Friday morning forced the traders of Sopore and Baramullah to shut their shops in Handwara and Kupwara. Reports said that there were heated exchange of arguments between the traders of Sopore and Baramulla with the people of Handwara and Kupwara in both the towns. Some people visited my shop and asked me to close the business in Handwara, a shopkeeper from Sopore owning a shop at Handwara said.
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