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| Khanbal residents protest metering | | Police resorts to baton charge, Six injured | |
SRINAGAR, AUGUST 21: Six persons including a woman were injured when police resorted to teargas shelling and aerial firing to disperse protesters, who had assembled at Khanabal in South Kashmir’s Anathang district on Monday to express their resentment against the electronic ‘metering of their area by the Power development department (PDD). Meanwhile residents of Nawa bazaar in down downtown Srinagar staged a protest demonstration on Monday afternoon against the non-availability of electricity.
According to the reports reaching here, residents of Khanabal Anathnag took to roads and staged massive protest demonstrations against metering of their area by PDD on Srinagar-Jammu National High way on Monday. Reports said that the protesters blocked the road for hours resulting in large queuing of vehicles.
Reports further said that Police reached on the spot and asked protesters to disperse the protesters, however protesters offered stiff resistance and fought pitched battles with the cops. Police baton charged the protesters, fired numerous teargas shells and resorted to aerial firing. In the police action and mob retaliation six people including a woman protester were injured.
Meanwhile residents of Nawa-bazar in down town Srinagar took to streets and staged a massive protest demonstration against the ‘non-availability of electricity’ in their area on busy Nawa-bazar road obstructing traffic for hours. Later police reached the spot and pacified the protesters, with the assurance that their demands would be brought in the notice of concerned officials.
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