Collective punishment being given to the youth of Kashmir ahead of Amit Shah’s visit says Mehbooba
By: Muzamil Bhat CK
Srinagar
PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Friday said that by snatching the bikes of hundreds of youth in Kashmir, the government is giving collective punishment to the youth as they move on the bikes for their livelihood.
She said that such an attitude of the police shows that this government has no compassion or concern for the youth and they even want to push them to the uncertainty by snatching the bikes so that they cannot even do any activity for survival.
In a tweet on Friday Mehbooba said, “J&K admin’s recent spree of seizing bikes in Kashmir is a collective punishment & another way to snatch whatever means Kashmiri youth have to earn their livelihood in a dignified manner. Contrary to GOIs claims of providing jobs, they are doing the opposite”.
According to PTI in its report about the utterances of Mehbooba Mufti on this subject it has said in its news report on Friday as follows.
Ahead of Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s likely visit to Kashmir this weekend, many riders have alleged that their two-wheelers were seized by police without even checking the documents and they were asked to collect their vehicles after October 26.
Police said the seizing of two wheelers was part of routine anti-terror measures.
“Seizing some bikes and shutting down of internet of some towers is purely related to #terror #violences. It has nothing to do with visit of the Hon’ble HM,” IGP Kashmir zone Vijay Kumar tweeted.
The internet services on a dozen towers — mostly in the areas where non-local labourers were killed in the past week — was snapped three days ago.
With PTI inputs
