{"id":2385,"date":"2014-05-09T13:02:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T13:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir-today.net\/?p=2385"},"modified":"2014-05-09T13:02:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T13:02:22","slug":"baramulla-traders-on-indefinite-strike-to-protest-raids-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=2385","title":{"rendered":"Baramulla traders on indefinite strike to protest raids, arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Srinagar:\u00a0<\/strong>The trade organization in North Kashmir\u2019s Baramulla district\u00a0<span>Friday<\/span>\u00a0called an indefinite strike and has accused the police of \u2018looting\u2019 during nocturnal raids in the Old Town of the district.<\/p>\n<p>While accusing police of \u2018loot\u2019 and \u2018robbery\u2019, the Baramulla Beopar Mandal has called for indefinite shutdown in the town which began from today with all the shops and business establishments shut. The trade body has demanded release of detained youth and \u2018elderly\u2019 persons and transfer of two senior police officers.<\/p>\n<p>All the markets of Baramulla town were closed with traffic off the roads while clashes also took place at Cement Bridge \u2013 which connects Old Town with Civil Lines. There was huge deployment of police and paramilitary forces in all the markets of the town while police had erected concertina wires on Cement Bridge restricting the movement of civilians.<\/p>\n<p>While talking to GNS, the president of Baramulla Beopar Mandal, Abdul Rashid Mir, said: \u201cPolice have created hostile situation in the town. They have detained around 30-40 youth and elderly persons during nocturnal raids from last few days from various parts of the town including in Azad Gunj, Ganai Hamam, Jamia Mohalla and Stadium Colony.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast night at around\u00a0<span>2:00 am<\/span>, police raided the house of a businessman Ghulam Din Mir of Stadium Colony Azad Gunj. They went berserk, smashed glasses and other belongings. They thrashed him and his son. His son, Abdul Rashid was picked up by police without clothes,\u201d Mir alleged.<\/p>\n<p>While leveling serious allegations on the police, he said: \u201cThey stole gold worth 16 lakhs from his house and 3 rupees three lakh in cash. Besides, all this, his house was damaged by police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said Beopar Mandal demands compensation to the businessman, release of the detainees, return the gold and cash \u2018stolen by police\u2019 and transfer of Deputy Superintendent of Police (Headquarters)\u00a0\u00a0and Station House Officer Baramulla. \u201cTill these demands are not met, the town will observe a complete shutdown. It is a collective decision,\u201d Mir said.<\/p>\n<p>The Superintendent of Police (SP) Baramulla, Suhail Munawar told GNS that he is unaware about ransacking issue. \u201cI will have to check the facts,\u201d he said. (GNS)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar:\u00a0The trade organization in North Kashmir\u2019s Baramulla district\u00a0Friday\u00a0called an indefinite strike and has accused the police of \u2018looting\u2019 during nocturnal raids in the Old Town of the district. While accusing police of \u2018loot\u2019 and \u2018robbery\u2019, the Baramulla Beopar Mandal has called for indefinite shutdown in the town which began from today with all the shops [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}