About eighty persons, including 15 police personnel received injures at various places in J&K, while a mob of five hundred Shiv Sainiks and activists of BJP attacked a police party in Durga Nagar on Jammu Bantalab road in the outskirts of Jammu city..
A MOB set a police vehicle on fire at Sector 2, Durga Nagar area of Bantalab on Thursday afternoon. Sources said that protesters at Muthi attacked the house of Congress minister Mula Ram. However, police guards posted there barred them from going inside.
Sources quoting eyewitnesses said that a group of Sena activists threw stones on police at various places, opposing revocation of land transfer to Amarnath Shrine Board.
The situation in Bantalab area of Jammu remained tense as a protesting mob attacked police vehicle and set it on fire. In an hour-long battle between police and protesting Hindu activists, about 20 persons, including five police personal were injured. The police also detained dozens of protesters from the area. Police fired dozens of tear gas shells to disperse the crowd, but the vehicle was completely gutted and the driver was given a severe thrashing by the mob.
A heavy contingent of Rapid Action Force was reportedly called in the area. More than five old Kashmiri Pandit ladies were injured when police opened fire and burst teargas shells inside their homes. This was done when police was unable to control the protesters so they attacked the ladies in their houses in Sector 2 of Durga Nagar area.
In Bantalab, a group of protesting activists of various Hindu organisations damaged a building owned by former militant and Member of Legislative Council (MLC) late Javed Shah, which houses government middle school.
“Activists of BJP and Shiv Sena barged into the house of a Hindu Hurriyat leader, Sharma in Nanak Nagar area and ransacked it,” sources informed, adding pitched battles were fought between police and protesters in other parts of the city.
Dozens of persons were also reported to have been injured in separate areas of Jammu, where protesters threw stones despite imposition of curfew and section 144. As per reports about ten persons, including a driver have been injured in police-public clashes.
Reports from Kathua, Samba, Udhampur, Ramban, Bhaderwah, Kishtwar, Poonch and Rajouri said pitched battles between police and the protesting Sena and BJP activists were reported.
Meanwhile, police opened fire and burst teargas shells to quell workers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiv Sena, who demonstrated at various places across the state today. Source: http://india.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=136947
Sources quoting eyewitnesses said that a group of Sena activists threw stones on police at various places, opposing revocation of land transfer to Amarnath Shrine Board.
The situation in Bantalab area of Jammu remained tense as a protesting mob attacked police vehicle and set it on fire. In an hour-long battle between police and protesting Hindu activists, about 20 persons, including five police personal were injured. The police also detained dozens of protesters from the area. Police fired dozens of tear gas shells to disperse the crowd, but the vehicle was completely gutted and the driver was given a severe thrashing by the mob.
A heavy contingent of Rapid Action Force was reportedly called in the area. More than five old Kashmiri Pandit ladies were injured when police opened fire and burst teargas shells inside their homes. This was done when police was unable to control the protesters so they attacked the ladies in their houses in Sector 2 of Durga Nagar area.
In Bantalab, a group of protesting activists of various Hindu organisations damaged a building owned by former militant and Member of Legislative Council (MLC) late Javed Shah, which houses government middle school.
“Activists of BJP and Shiv Sena barged into the house of a Hindu Hurriyat leader, Sharma in Nanak Nagar area and ransacked it,” sources informed, adding pitched battles were fought between police and protesters in other parts of the city.
Dozens of persons were also reported to have been injured in separate areas of Jammu, where protesters threw stones despite imposition of curfew and section 144. As per reports about ten persons, including a driver have been injured in police-public clashes.
Reports from Kathua, Samba, Udhampur, Ramban, Bhaderwah, Kishtwar, Poonch and Rajouri said pitched battles between police and the protesting Sena and BJP activists were reported.
Meanwhile, police opened fire and burst teargas shells to quell workers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiv Sena, who demonstrated at various places across the state today. Source: http://india.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=136947
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