Clash at Pandit employees’ housing cluster in Kupwara

As Kashmir Valley continues to be on the boil, a clash took place between a group of protesters and CRPF close to a cluster of residential quarters of government employees belonging to minority Kashmiri Pandits at Nutnusa in frontier district of Kupwara on Wednesday

Police sources said that during protests in the area a mob chased a small contingent of the CRPF into the premises and also attacked a police guard room set up to provide security to the place. “Four window panes of the quarters and also three cars parked outside the premises were damaged in stone-pelting but no one was injured,” the sources said.

Earlier a similar incident had occurred at Haal in south Kashmir. Majority of the Pandit employees putting up at these accommodations have returned to Jammu or shifted to safer locations within the Valley in view of the turbulence set off by the killing of militant commander Burhan Wani on July 8.

A day after his death, the CRPF guarding historic Martand temple in southern Anantnag had also come under an attack from protesters. A video on the incident recently went viral on social media sites.

The authorities, however, sought to shrug the incidents off saying the attacks were not directed at the members of the minority community but the J&K police and the CRPF guarding these places.