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| Police start probe to break 'Mystery Code-2' | | Miscreants torch vehicles in pairs in Valley | | Kashmir unrest
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 25: Even as around a dozen vehicles were torched by miscreants in Kashmir in the past around a fortnight, the violent incidents have shown a unique pattern, which the police have termed as "Mystery Code 2."
The pattern of such violent attacks has shown that mainly a pair of vehicles were set ablaze in a day. Till now at least five such incidents have been reported within a fortnight prompting the police to probe if there was a "deliberate design in such attacks."
Sources said the police is trying to find out if a organized group of miscreants was behind all such attacks. While 15 accused have been arrested in connection with the torching of the vehicles the police is trying to ascertain if they all are connected or some other party in running the nexus.
On October 19, a white Scorpio parked on a main road in Saderbal area was seen up in flames while a Sumo was torched by protesters in Delina area of north Kashmir's Baramulla.
Two days prior to this, unidentified masked persons set ablaze two passengers' vehicles at Parimpora on City outskirts on October 17.
The passenger cabs, bearing registration numbers JK05B-5863 and JK09-9209, were carrying passengers to Srinagar when they were stopped by miscreants in the morning. The two vehicles were torched by masked protesters.
Earlier, on October 10, unidentified persons set on fire two private cars at on the Hyder Pora highway. Police said "Miscreants set on fire two private vehicles bearing registration number JK01N-6690 (Estello) and JK02AB-103 (Swift-VDI) at Goripora Crossing near Snooker Hall (in the) jurisdiction of Police station Budgam."
This trend of setting vehicles ablaze started on October 4, when two auto-rickshaws were set ablaze by unidentified persons at Bagwanpora, Kralkhud and Saida Kadal in separate incidents in north Srinagar.
In another similar incident, police said two carts were burnt on October 16 at Dalgate. The carts, as per police had dared to defy hartal and would operate during daytime. "Miscreants burnt them," said a police official.
Sources said while the police was investigating the cases separately, there came a twist in the story when some of the officials during a review meeting of the police highlighted the "uniqueness of the torching that attacks were being made in pairs."
"This alerted the police brass which sought investigations to unveil if the same gang of miscreants was operational across Kashmir," said an insider.
While the united Hurriyat is reluctant to break the protest calendar, the people have started open defiance of the shutdown politics. While the traffic movement of private transport has already left senior separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani unnerved, people continue to venture out during hartal.
Markets in areas like Sanat Nagar, Jawahar Nagar and Raj Bagh have been working as normal during the shutdown calls separatists. |
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