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| People beaten, stripped for casting votes in North Kashmir | | | Syed Tahir Bukhari
BARAMULLA, May 8: Resentment and reprisal from people with opposing ideology is hardly unseen and unheard especially in the rural pockets, where people exercised their franchise in Lok Sabha elections on May 7. They were beaten and in some cases stripped by group of youth at various places in Baramulla district of north Kashmir today.
According to sources, aftermath of polling in north Kashmir's Baramulla town where a group of youth clashed with Government forces throughout the day in which many civilians sustained minor injuries.
Sources said, "masked youth checked the ink on every passenger who were coming from Handwara tehsil to Baramulla via Watergam area in Rafiabad with one or the other purpose were thrashed and even though forced them to put off their clothes in a full public glare.
Eyewitnesses said that the youth at volatile Old Town Baramulla and Sopore Bus Stand were seen stopping vehicles from remote areas like Uri, Kupwara and other places. The passengers were asked to show their index fingers.
"Those who had the ink mark were thrashed," an eyewitness, insisting not to be named from Azad Gunj Old Town Baramulla said.
A group of youth showed "Pent of Wrath" towards the Government of India and state Government of Jammu and Kashmir by hurling stones on CRPF and other Government forces.
Meanwhile, a group of youth pelted stones on shops, Police Station and CRPF personnel. Life was normal in Sopore town when scores of youth appeared in the market and enforced shutdown there. The youth amid pro-freedom and anti-India slogans resorted to stone-pelting as a result the market presented a deserted look.
Another eyewitness from Sopore said: "The glasses of around 10 vehicles of Kupwara were smashed by youth and people who had casted vote were thrashed in Bus Stand and Iqbal Market."
Government forces used tear-smoke shells to disperse the protestors. Reports said that the clashes between youth and police continued for hours at different places in Sopore town.
Clashes between youth and Government Forces also broke out in Hajin, Naidkhai and Sumbal town of Bandipora district today morning even as a complete shutdown was observed. |
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