SRINAGAR: Following widespread anti-Israeli protests against the Israeli assault on Gaza, police on Monday confirmed over a dozen arrests during nocturnal raids from different localities of the Srinagar, downtown. Most of the arrests have been made in connection with the alleged attack on Nowhatta police station, police said.
Hundreds of youth on Thursday evening had attacked Nowhatta police station with stones and tried to torch it. During the attack, police resorted to aerial firing and teargas shelling to disperse the youth. Following the attack, police had registered several cases under FIR number 68/ 2014 under section 147, 141, 149, 336, 427 RPC and had said that they have identified youths who were leading attackers.
A small group of masked youth had even raised the flag of Iraq based Islamic State terror group atop the outer gate of Srinagar’s historic Grnd Mosque.
Police official said the youth were arrested during nocturnal raids in various areas of the Old City. He said they have been imprisoned in different police stations of the Old City.
The official said apart from 12 youth, two more youth have been detained in connection with the torching of a cops scooter.
Last week on Friday, when anti-Israel clashes were going on in Nowhatta, youths nabbed a cop in civvies and thrashed him ruthlessly. The cops scooter was also torched by youth.
We have identified four youth who are involved in the incident, the official said, adding right now we are questioning two people in this regard.
Meanwhile, the Senior Superintendent of Police Srinagar, Amit Kumar has confirmed the arrests.
Meanwhile, Chairman of Hurriyat Conference M, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has stated that the use of firepower against the peaceful protesters and murdering young Kashmiris has become the inalienable part of duties of police and other government forces stationed in Kashmir.
Mirwaiz said that police and other government forces were misusing the special powers granted to them by the state. He stated that government wants to repeat 2010 like incidents when they martyred more than 120 youth in peaceful azaadi protests. He stated that target killing of youth, blasting of houses, use of force against peaceful protesters, wanton arrests, and imposition of curfews were some of the Israeli type tactics being used by Indian forces in Kashmir.
Addressing a gathering at Kanel masjid Mahraj Gunj, Mirwaiz termed the recent killing of Suhail Ahmad lone of Kulgam, injuring of scores of others by government forces, and wanton arrest of youth from old city as a clear case of state sponsored terrorism.
Mirwaiz stated that governments around the world have not used force to stop or kill the protesters demonstrating against naked aggression of Israelis against Palestinians,. Ironically, he said, it had become the habit of state government in Kashmir to suppress the peaceful protests and they followed the same policy of killing and arresting Kashmiris for expressing solidarity with the Palestinians.
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