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| Clashes, pitched battles mark Independence Day 'celebrations' in Valley | | | Mustansir
Srinagar, Aug 15: Independence Day 'celebrations' were marred by clashes and pitched battles between protestors and security forces at most places in the valley eventhough Summer capital city of Srinagar remained largely peaceful due to heavy deployment.
Pitched battles were fought in the South Kashmir's Samboora, Pampore and Prichloo of the district Pulwama and the Handwara and Baramullah districts of North Kashmir.
In Pulwama black flags with anti-India slogans written on them appeared at different places in the early hours of Thursday morning, however, Army and Para-military troopers were quick to remove all the black flags. Flags were seized from Samboora, Pampore and Prichoo in the district Pulwama.
Meanwhile, Youths in the Samboora, Pampore attacked a CRPF van by pelting stones on it, the van was ferrying troopers from Pulwama to Pampore after August 15 function. The CRPF personnel used tear gas shelling to disperse the agitated youth.
Clashes also erupted in Bandipora town between youths and the Police. Clashes erupted when dozens of youths assembled in Gulshan Chowk and raised pro-freedom slogans. Youths engaged police in pitched battles. In another incident unknown masked men allegedly attacked the house of senior Peoples Democratic Party leader and former Forest Minister, Sofi Ghulam Mohi-u-Din in North Kahsmir's Handwara town. The incident took place in the intervening nights of 14 and 15 August. "At first we thought it was a militant attack. The miscreants smashed all the windowpanes of our house and fled from the scene. My father was not present in the house," the family of Sofi said.
In Khanpora area of Baramullah three school children and a driver was injured when agitated youth pelted stones on an SRTC bus carrying students back from the Government Middle School Uri after participating in independence celebrations at Police lines Baramullah.
Meanwhile, DIG North Kashmir said that police have identified the stone pelters and hunt has been launched to trace them. Parents alleged that police did not bother to provide security cover to their children. "Police took pains to bring them to Barmaulla and left them at the mercy of the God after the function was over," one of the parents said. |
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