Summary The puppet authorities continue to impose curfew and other restrictions across the Kashmir Valley.
SRINAGAR (Dunya News / Web Desk / AFP) - In occupied Kashmir, Indian Army has subjected a lecturer to custodial killing in Pulwama district.
According to the residents of Khrew area of the district, on late Wednesday night the Army personnel barged into the residential houses, harassing and looting the people.
They said that the soldiers thrashed the inmates including women and arrested 28 persons.
The locals said that 30-year-old lecturer, Shabbir Ahmad Mongu, was among the arrested people.
They said that Shabbir Ahmad was dragged out and beaten up ruthlessly before the forces’ personnel arrested him. Later, the Indian forces asked the family to take dead body of Shabbir Ahmad, they added.
Shabbir’s brother has also been seriously injured by the Army and is critical at SMHS hospital in Srinagar.
Media reports quoting police sources said that the Army first approached police asking them to hand over the dead body of Shabbir to the family. However, police refused to do.
“Many more are said to be missing in the area. All the arrested people have not been released as of yet,” locals said.
The puppet authorities continue to impose curfew and other restrictions across the Kashmir Valley on the 41st consecutive day, today, to prevent people from holding demonstrations against the killing spree.
Call for holding of the demonstrations has been jointly given by the All Parties Hurriyet Conference Chairman, Syed Ali Gilani, and Hurriyet leaders, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik to register protest against the killing of innocent people by Indian forces during the ongoing Kashmir Intifada.
The occupied territory is on the boil since the extra-judicial murder of the top commander of Hizbul Mujahideen, Burhan Wani, by Indian troops on July 8.
Atleast 81 people have been killed while over 80,00 injured so far in the firing of bullets, pallets, and teargas shells on peaceful protesters by Indian troops and police personnel.
Meanwhile, the occupation authorities continue to put Hurriyet leaders including Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Shabbir Ahmed Shah and Agha Syed Hassan Al-Moosvi Al-Safvi under house arrest or in police custody to prevent them from leading the demonstrations.
Atleast 81 civilians have been killed in clashes between protesters and security forces, and thousands more injured in the worst violence to hit the Himalayan region since 2010.
Kashmir is split between India and Pakistan along a UN-monitored line of control, but both claim it in full and have fought two wars over its control.
Freedom fighters have fought Indian security forces in Kashmir since 1989 for the independence of the region or for it to be made part of Pakistan. The conflict has left tens of thousands, mostly civilians, dead.
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