House-to-house searches in Anantnag; JK Bank branch looted in Kulgam; Two School set afire

Government forces on Wednesday launched a crackdown and house-to-house searches in several villages of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district.
Reports said that forces laid a siege to Danter and Chidhama villages of the district and launched house-to-house searches.
It was not immediately clear whether force were chasing militants or youths allegedly involved in stone-throwing protests.

J&K Police on late Monday night said that a petrol bomb was lobbed at moving tipper in North Kashmir’s Baramulla. “Today (Monday) evening some miscreants in order to impose shutdown call lobbed a petrol bomb on a moving tipper bearing registration number JK05-5899 near Khanpora, Baramulla,” a police statement said.
“Tipper driver Irshad Ahmad Mir, son of Ashraf Mir, resident of Uran Buwa, Boniyar got injured in this incident,” the statement said.
“He was shifted to SMHS Hospital, Srinagar for treatment. An FIR was registered under sections of attempt to murder and man hunt has been launched to nab the assailants,” it added.

Unidentified gunmen on Tuesday barged into a J&K bank branch in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district and looted cash from the counter. Reports said that two masked persons barged into J&K Bank branch Kader and looted more than Rs one lakh.
Forces have launched a massive manhunt in the area to nab the looters.

Two school buildings were set ablaze by unknown persons in Kashmir over the past 24 hours, setting alarm bells ringing among authorities who have decided to step up security around educational institutions.
A Government school was set ablaze by unknown persons in the wee hours Tuesday in Noorbagh area of the city but the blaze was put out by fire tenders, a police official said. He said the school building suffered damage in the fire and the firefighting operation.
In another incident, miscreants tried to burn down Government Higher Secondary School at Aishmuqam in Anantnag district, the official said.
The school building was saved by the timely intervention of fire brigade personnel, he said adding one window panel was damaged due to the fire. (PTI)

Intense clashes erupted in North Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Tuesday morning after forces resorted to ransacking. Kashmir Post received scores of calls from residents of Kuensoo and Ashtango detailing the morning raid and ransacking by men in uniform.
“Around 11:30 AM today, Rashtriya Rifles, police and CRPF men came in around 13 vehicles,” a resident of Kuensoo told Kashmir Post over phone. “They damaged private Vehicles, entered Masjids, residential houses damaging their window panes and doors,” the locals aid wishing anonymity for obvious reasons.
He said that the forces entered at least three Mohallas of the village including Mirpora, Kawpora and Wadipora. “People came out of their homes and started protesting against the highhandedness of the forces,” he added, “but they fired pellets, tear gas shells and beat up people ruthlessly including women.”
The locals said that over two dozen people were injured in the forces action and they are being shifted to Sopore and Bandipora hospitals while as many are being treated locally.Meanwhile, when news spread that forces had raided Kuensoo, people from nearby Ashtango came out of their homes and started protests.
“The forces resorted to intense tear gas shelling when they reached Ashtango,” a local said. “Youths resorted to stone pelting and clashes erupted.”

In order to “manage” Kashmir, security grid continues with its raids and peculiar crackdowns across Kashmir. Till wee hours on Tuesday, there were at least two major exercises reported across Kashmir.
Reports reaching from Shopian said that police and 44-RR cordoned off Malik Mohalla, Bungam soon after the Fajr prayers were over. They conducted home to home searches but did not arrest anybody, reports added. The operation was over within two hours. The searching soldiers do not offer any iota about why the searches were being carried out.
In Srinagar, police had gone to Anchar belt for carrying out raids but the action was resented by the locals. Within minutes after the police landed into the locality, the residents switched on the mike of the mosques asking people to come out. It triggered jams on the streets forcing police and CRPF to retreat. Not many details of the “operation” were immediately available.
Meanwhile a report from Baramulla suggested that police have arrested a bunch of Geelani’s party workers from south Kashmir’s Islamabad district. They have been identified as Bashir Ahmad Saleh, Bashir Ahmad Sofi, Abdul Khaliq Regu, Abdul Rehman Tantray, Farooq Ahmad Saleh and Tanveer Ahmad Saleh. They have been arrested from BIjbehara belt. These people had fled Baramulla to escape their arrests.

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