An indefinite curfew was imposed in Baramulla town of north Kashmir on Monday following violent protests over alleged police misbehaviour.A woman was killed and several others were injured in the protest.
The curfew was imposed in the town, 55 kms from Srinagar, after security personnel opened fire to quell a mob protesting against local policemen who allegedly misbehaved with a woman in a police station on Sunday evening, official sources said.
According to the sources, police opened fire after teargas shelling and baton charge failed to disperse hundreds of violent protestors.
“Curfew has been imposed in the town to maintain law and order,” Deputy Commissioner Baramulla Latif-u-Zaman Deva told PTI.
“We are monitoring the situation which is very tense,” he said.
The trouble erupted in the town on Sunday when angry groups of youth indulged in stone pelting after a woman came out of the local police station and alleged that the cops misbehaved with her.
However, police denied the woman's charge and said her husband Mohammad Yousuf Bhat was picked up for questioning in connection with the abduction of a teenaged girl by the woman's brother.
“The woman came to the police station and sought release of her husband. She threatened to end her life when police asked her politely to leave the police station and produce her brother,” a police spokesman said.
The locals then indulged in stone-pelting at the police station after the woman alleged that the police officer misbehaved with her.
The situation took a turn for the worse on Monday morning when people took to the streets again and indulged in stone-pelting demanding action against the police personnel who allegedly misbehaved with the woman.
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