PULWAMA: Nocturnal raids and subsequent arrest of at least six youth sparked spontaneous shutdown in South Kashmirs Pulwama district while protestors took to streets and tried to attack police station Pulwama. Police resorted to tear-gas shelling to disperse the agitated protestors.
Locals from various areas of Pulwama district including Chhatpora, Dilipora, Washbugh and Prechoo Friday took to streets and alleged that government forces during the dead of the night conduct raids in their houses and beat inmates to pulp. The Special Operation Group and CRPF personnel forcibly barged into our houses and harassed the inmates, the protestors adding that some of the youth were tortured on spot and after then were taken to unknown destination.
Protestors from Chhatpora area of Pulwama said that men in uniform arrested six youth and before bundling them into police vehicles were subjected to physical torture.
Eyewitnesses that people amid slogans marched towards police station Pulwama and pelted stones on the Station. The police bursted tear smoke shells to disperse the youth. Reports said that the clashes between protestors and police continued for hours.
Some of the protestors attacked CRPF vehicles with stones causing damage to various vehicles. The town observed complete shutdown. All the shops, business establishments and educational institutes remained closed while transport was off the road.
Sources said that during the clashes police arrested five more youth on charges of stone-pelting.
A top police official on condition of anonymity that few youth had been identified by police who indulged in massive stone-pelting on the day of polling in the town. Special Operation Group personnel arrested only those youth as they were responsible for the disruption of peace and order in the town, he said adding that police never touches any innocent and peace-loving person.
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