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| Police continue crackdown on miscreants, arrest 2 for vandalizing bank branch | | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Oct 20: Acting tough on people who are carrying anti-national and anti-social activities in Kashmir valley the Jammu & Kashmir Police today arrested two miscreants accused of resorting to vandalism at a branch of Jammu & Kashmir Bank at Natipora near Chanapora on Wednesday.
Reports said that a police party raided some of the houses in few localities in Natipora and Chanapora areas and arrested the two miscreants during the operation. The police are on look-out of the other persons who are also involved in the incident and continue to be on run. Interestingly the arrest of miscreants did not spark any protest in any of the two areas.
Police also swooped on the Chatabal area in downtown Srinagar and arrested some of the 'anti-social' and 'anti-national' elements in the operation that carried on during the intervening night of October 19 and 20. There were protests against the arrests in the area and police as well as security forces had to fire teargas shells in order to bring the situation under control.
Clashes erupted in Nowhatta area in downtown Srinagar after police and security forces foiled the protest march organized by people against the closure of Jamia Masjid since July this year. The people taking part in the protest march also demanded immediate release of Hurriyat Conference (M) Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.
Reports said that some of the people had organized protest march in order to press the government for their demands. As the protesters tried to march towards Rajouri Kadal from Jamia Masjid, police and security forces used tear gas canisters to disperse them. The clashes were going on when last reports came in.
A police spokesman said that two miscreants involved in damaging the Jammu & Kashmir Bank articles at Natipora in Srinagar on Wednesday were arrested today.
"As reported earlier miscreants entered into Jammu & Kashmir Bank branch at Badshah Nagar, Natipora and damaged CCTV screen, LED, glass panes and other articles. A case FIR number 182/2016 under section 336, 427, 452 was registered in this regard and investigation was taken up," said the spokesman.
The spokesman said that during the investigation, miscreants involved in this incident were identified. Among them two miscreants identified as Imran Mir resident of Ganderbal at present Badshah Nagar, Chanapora and Shafat Ashiq Najar resident of Iram lane, Natipora have been arrested and the manhunt continues to nab other involved people.
Meanwhile, according to a statement issued by Zonal Police Headquarters Kashmir, no untoward incident was reported from any part of the valley today. The statement said that with constant improvement in the situation coupled with increase in traffic and pedestrian movement in Srinagar and other main towns, the overall situation remained peaceful in the valley.
"Greater people and vehicular movement was observed in Srinagar city as was in other parts of the valley. Shops and other business establishments were open and markets were thronged by shoppers. However, a stray incident of stone pelting was reported from Brath in Sopore," it said. |
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