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These are pictures from Nasrullahpora in Budgam where residents claim that after a DSP was injured in clashes with locals post Friday prayers, the “police came back with axes and rods, entered homes and damaged everything in the their path, going floor by floor.”
Amina, is a widow from the area who supports her family of eight with this little shop, that has been left ransacked.
IG Kashmir, Vijay Kumar said that a mob had “tried to lynch a DSP, after which clashes broke out.” With regard to allegations of police violence he said, “we are verifying videos and have sought a report from the local SP”
The local SP, said this on Tuesday, “In order to implement lockdown, and directions of DM, DSP HQ appealed people to disperse. Suddenly stone pelting started and DSP Fayaz got trapped, heavy stone pelting started and miscreants attempted to lynch him.“ FIR registered.
Meanwhile, there is barely a house with a television, or a car with a windshield intact. In one house, even the taps and the gas stove were left broken. The mosque has been locked since Friday and no one has heard the call for prayer, since.
