In occupied Kashmir, Indian army has subjected a lecturer to custodial killing in Pulwama district.
According to residents of Khrew area of the district, Indian army personnel late on Wednesday night barged into residential houses, harassing and looting the people. They said the soldiers thrashed the inmates, including women, and arrested 28 persons.
Thirty-year-old lecturer, Shabbir Ahmad Mongu, was among those arrested, locals said, adding that he was dragged out and beaten up ruthlessly before being arrested. 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 in critical condition at the 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, the police refused to do so.
“Many more are said to be missing in the area. All the arrested people have not yet been released,” locals said.
The puppet authorities continue to impose curfew and other restrictions across the Kashmir Valley on the 41st consecutive day, Thursday, to prevent people from holding demonstrations against the killing spree.
Call for holding of the demonstrations has been jointly given by All Parties Hurriyet Conference Chairman Syed Ali Geelani 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.