Kulgam: Police on Saturday used
tear-smoke shells on protestors to clear road for the Social Welfare Minister, Sakeena
Itoo in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district. The protestors had blocked the road
near Bogund Kulgam against non-availability of electricity and were demanding
installation of power transformer in the area.
According to reports amid
anti-government and Power Development Department (PDD) slogans, hundreds of
people blocked Kulgam Islamabad road near Bogund Kulgam. The protestors alleged
that from past one month scores of hamlets of Kulgam are reeling under darkness
while PDD shows no seriousness to end their woes.
“Our area is reeling under darkness from past
one month. The transformer needed a minor repairing but even after the expiry
of one month, PDD did not install transformer in Bogund area. The PDD officials
play with us and are never interested in addressing our problems,” Irshad Ahmed
a protestor, said.
Eyewitnesses said that the police
resorted to teargas shelling on peaceful protestors to clear the road for
Social Welfare Minister Sakina Itoo.
“The cavalcade of the Minister was stopped
by the protestors. Police swung into action and tried to disperse the
protestors by using tear smoke shelling. As people ran here and there, the
cavalcade of the Minister moved ahead,” an eyewitness said, adding few youth sustained
injures in police action.
A youth identified as Hilal Ahmed
Ganaie received 3 stitches in his head. Reports said that even after the
teargas shelling, protestors did not budge and continued to raise slogans
against police, government and PDD.
Superintendent of Police Kulgam
Mumtaz Ahmed told early times that some ‘unscrupulous elements’ resorted to
stone pelting when cavalcade of Social Welfare Minister reached on spot. “We
used some tear smoke shells to disperse the protestors,” he said adding that no
one was injured in police action. 
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