Srinagar: As Haryana police arrested three among the six persons who it said had assault students from Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti tanked her counterpart of the northern Indian State for the “prompt action.”
The Haryana police has constituted a Special Investigation Team to probe into the assault after filing an FIR (53 of 2018) under section IPC sections of 148 (rioting), 149 (unlawful assembly), 341 (wrongful restraint) and 323 (voluntarily causing hurt).
“Thank you for your prompt action @mlkhattar ji,” Mehbooba responded to Haryana Chief Minister’s statement that guilty will be punished.
“Incident had started with a minor collision of motorcycle of the accused. People have already been arrested and senior officer (SP) is on the spot,” Chief Minister of Haryana Manohar Lal had tweeted.
The action followed after J&K Director General of Police SP Vaid took up the matter with his counterpart after Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti and his predecessor and National Conference Omar Abdullah condemned the assault.
“In touch with DGP Haryana. Police is taking cognisance of the incident,” said J&K’s DGP Shesh Paul Vaid had tweeted.
Mufti had said she was shocked and disturbed to hear reports of Kashmiri students being assaulted in Haryana. “I urge the authorities to investigate & take strict action,” Mehbooba wrote on twitter while reacting to reacting to reports about the assault on Kashmiri students of Haryana Central University. The students said that they were beaten while returning to campus after offering congregational Friday prayers in Mahendragarh town.
“This is terrible & goes against the spirit of what @PMOIndia @narendramodi ji said from the ramparts of the Red Fort. I hope the authorities in Haryana act quickly against this violence,” Omar Abdullah had tweeted.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 15 urged a more conciliatory approach towards Kashmir, saying problems can be solved by “embracing” the people rather than resorting to abuse or bullets.
“Na goli se, na gaali se, Kashmir ki samasya suljhegi gale lagaane se (Kashmir’s problems can be solved only with embracing the people of Kashmir, not with bullets or abuses),” Modi had said.
