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Stone-pelting mob clashes with police in Baramulla
Friday April 06, 2012 07:49:42 PM,
IANS
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Srinagar: Police
clashed with a mob of stone-pelters after Friday prayers in the
North Kashmir town of Baramulla, 54 km from here, forcing the
closure of businesses and halting traffic in the town.
"(Separatist leader) Syed Ali Shah Geelani had addressed a
gathering at the main chowk (square) in the town following which
violence erupted. Police exercised maximum restraint as a mob of
miscreants resorted to heavy stone pelting on Baramulla police
station after Friday prayers. It is pertinent to mention that such
incidents of violence after Geelani's public addresses have taken
place at many places last year too," a police press statement said
here.
Eyewitnesses said police used tear smoke shells and batons to
disperse the unruly mob outside the Baramulla police station.
"After the mob withdrew from the police station, they engaged in
intense stone pelting at the police in the cement bridge area," an
eye-witness told IANS on phone from Baramulla.
Tit-for-tat clashes between police and the stone pelters were
continuing in the cement bridge area till last reports came in.
Baramulla town is believed to be a stronghold of the octogenarian
separatist leader, Geelani who hails from the adjacent town of
Sopore in the Baramulla district.
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