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| Police arrest 500 stone pelters in South, North Kashmir | | | Mustansir
Srinagar, Apr 28 : Around 500 `stone pelters' and `trouble mongers' have been arrested by police in South Kashmir on charges of disrupting the polling and enforcing election boycott on April 24. Hundreds have gone into hiding to evade arrest by the police. According to reports police have so far arrested around 500 protesters and stone pelting youth and is searching for more than two hundred youth who have been identified. A senior police official told Early Times on Monday that police has launched a manhunt to arrest all the trouble mongers identified after examining the videos taken on April 24. He said that in view of stone pelting incidents and violence by "miscreants" on April 24, police have initiated action to identify the "trouble mongers" and stone pelters. "Following this action police have so far arrested 70 stone pelters in South Kashmir with 25 arrests made in Pulwama, 09 in Shopian, 12 in Awantipora, 13 in Kulgam and 11 in Anantnag Districts," said the official. Further arrests are expected in coming days as more stone pelters who have already been identified are yet to be arrested, the statement added. Meanwhile, to ensure peaceful and violence free polling in Central Kashmir, police have been taking preventive measures and arrested around 400 stone pelters and "trouble mongers" in this range. Police said that arrests have been effected in North Kashmir and around 60 stone pelters have been taken into preventive custody. "Nobody will be allowed to disrupt the electoral process. The arrests have been made and will continue to be effected to instill confidence among the voters so that no one attempts to intimidate the people by resorting to violence against those who want to exercise their franchise," police said. |
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