Reports said that clashes erupted in Batamaloo area of Srinagar city after government forces tried to stop a pro-freedom march of locals. The area on Monday had witnessed massive violent clashes. Witnesses said that hundreds of people were part of a rally raising pro-freedom and anti-India slogans when men in uniform fired tear smoke shells to disperse them resulting in clashes. The exchange of stones and tear-smoke shells created panic in the area while more than a dozen people were wounded in these clashes. Photojournalists covering these clashes alleged that a police driver from Shaheed Ganj police station used abusive language and even tried to manhandle them. The police driver fled from the scene after the media men registered a protest against him.Meanwhile the locals from various areas of Batmaloo locality alleged that paramilitary CRPF personnel ransacked their houses and beat up the inmates. “CRPF men barged into our house, beat four of our family members, abused us and smashed the glasses of our windows,” said a Bunpora resident on the condition of anonymity. He said the paramilitary troopers barged into the house when they were making preparations to send food and other relief material to various city hospitals.
“There was no stone-pelting going on in the area that time and yet they abused and harassed us,” he said.Stone-pelting incidents were also reported from Chanapora and Kaksarai areas of the city where police used tear-gas shells to disperse the protesters.Reports said that clashes broke out on early Tuesday morning in Bandipora town between people and government forces when police party was making rounds around the market area. Police used tear-smoke shells to disperse the protesters who amid pro-freedom slogans demanded the release of youth from detention centres.Reports said that traders staged a peaceful sit-in at the main market in Bandipora while protests erupted at several places in the district. Witnesses said that a peaceful sit-in was staged by the traders to “send a message to people and the leadership that the ongoing uprising would continue until its logical conclusion.”Protests were held in Ajas and Saderkoot Payeen areas of the district against the alleged excesses of the forces in the district since Monday.Locals from Ajas and Saidnura took to roads and lodged protests against the high-handedness of government forces. People alleged that government forces roughed up civilians without provocation on Monday evening.
At least a dozen people were injured while some of them were shifted to Srinagar hospital for treatment after government forces including Army beat up locals and ransacked their houses.Reports from Apple Town Sopore said that a pro-freedom protest was held in Hathlangoo area of the town in north Kashmir's Baramulla district. People, including women and elderly, took part in the demonstration to demand resolution of the Kashmir issue by implementing UN resolutions.Pertinently, resistance leadership had appealed women to assemble and occupy local chowks and centres from Zuhar to Asar prayers and stage peaceful protests against Indian occupation.Clashes erupted in Kaloosa area of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district where police and paramilitary forces lobbed several teargas shells to disperse the protesters near the Kaloosa bridge.Hundreds of women in north Kashmir's Palhallan took out a pro-freedom rally while raising pro-freedom slogans on Tuesday. Reports said women from different villages of Palhallan area of Baramulla district marched through the streets and gathered at an eidgah in the locality before dispersing off peacefully. Witnesses said that women were holding placards while shouting pro-freedom and anti-India slogans. “We don’t want freedom from corruption, malpractices and nepotism. We want freedom from India and that is our demand. We will continue to protest and hit to roads till we don’t get what we want,” said a protester.
Hundreds of women in north Kashmir's Palhallan took out a pro-freedom rally while raising pro-freedom slogans on Tuesday.Reports said women from different villages of Palhallan area of Baramulla district marched through the streets and gathered at an Eidgah in the locality before dispersing off peacefully.Witnesses said that women held placards while shouting pro-freedom and anti-India slogans.At least twenty protesters were injured on Tuesday after government forces resorted to tear gas shelling in Qazigund and Watho areas of Kulgam and Shopian districts respectively.Local sources said that freedom rallies were scheduled at both the places and people in large numbers were on way to the venues however government forces used force to disperse them.They said at least 20 persons sustained injuries in both the incidents adding people reassembled and organized the proposed pro-freedom rallies. People of Mehmoodabad, Dooru in Anantnag district accused government forces of harassment and ransacking. A large number of people in these areas staged anti-India protests.Clashes broke out in Frestabal Pampore area of Pulwam district where youth attacked government forces with stones. In retaliation, forces fired tear-smoke shells. The clashes continued for hours disrupting the movement of traffic on Srinagar-Jammu highway.
A local from Srindhu Kulgam was shifted to SKIMS after the received serious pellet injuries during night protests in the area. Eyewitnesses told CNS that the nocturnal raid and subsequent detention of three people from Srindhu village sparked violent protests. People in large number hit to roads and clashed with forces who in retaliation resorted to aerial firing. The forces also used tear-smoke shells and pellets on the protesters resulting in the injuries of a local who immediately was removed to SKIMS Srinagar for treatment. Locals identified the wounded youth as Ghulam Jeelani Bhat son of Ghulam Muhammad a resident of Srindhu village of Kulgam district.Several people, including an elderly woman, were injured after government forces ransacked houses in Dooru village of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district.Witnesses and reports said that people took to streets after forces ransacked houses in Mehmoodabad village and beat up the inmates. Forces, they said, fired pellet guns and lobbed teargas shells to disperse the protesters. Many people, including 60-year-old Sara Bano, were injured in the forces’ action. Bano has received injuries in her head and chest and is being treated at Sub-district hospital Dooru. A 55-year-old man, identified as Ghulam Hassan Bhat, was also detained by the forces, said the residents, adding that the forces have spread a “reign of terror” in the area. (CNS)