PATTAN: Police arrested eight miscreants for pasting poll boycott posters and setting crackers in air to terrorize people in the dead of the night in North Kashmirs Pattan town.
A police official said that during the intervening night of 8th and 9th of December, at least 8 youth from a particular community arrived in a Sumo vehicle (JK01G-6858) in Pattan town. These youth after alighting from the vehicle at around 12 in the night, pasted poll boycott posters in the town and to terrorize people they burst crackers. On spotting the vehicle of Democratic Nationalist Party candidate, Basharat Hussain, these miscreants attacked him and smashed the window panes of his vehicle with iron rods, the police official added.
Initially I took them as militants. I was scared but as they set a cracker in air, I realized they were miscreants. I was fortunate that Army personnel from 29 RR were patrolling in the area and with their help, we managed to chase them and finally we trapped them near Hanji Veera Pattan, DP(N) candidate for Pattan Constituency told CNS.
Police was called and all the eight were put behind the bars. We seized their Sumo vehicle and recovered, fire crackers, ropes and iron rods from them. During questioning the miscreants who hail from Budgam district confessed that they were the supporters of National Conference and were send by NC candidate Aga Mehmood to enforce boycott in Pattan Constituency, said a police official on condition of anonymity.
The police official identified the arrested persons as Mubashir Ali Pandit, Tasaduq Ashraf (Budgam), Imtiyaz Rasool, Ghulam Hussain Ibrahim (Ichgam Budgam), Hussain Ali, Nazir Qasim Bhat, Firdous Ahmed, Bashir Ali Bhat all residents of Karipora.
Confirming the arrest of eight miscreants, DIG North Kashmir, Ghulam Hasan Bhat said that an FIR vide number 252 under section 132 of Representative of Peoples Act against them. They are all from Budgam and we are thoroughly investigating the matter, he said. (CNS)
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