Burhan Wani posters, ISIS flag raised at Pulwama college
Srinagar: Clashed erupted in Pulwama town Monday after students took out a protest rally demanding release of their colleagues who they said have been detained by police during last week’s protests.
Witnesses said that hundreds of students from Government’s Mehjoor Memorial Higher Secondary School at Chatapora locality marched upto Government Degree College. The students now joined by the College students marched to the Police station in Murran Chowk located more than half a kilometer from the college, the witnesses said.
The protesters were demanding release of their colleagues who they say have been detained by the police in the last week when protests erupted in the Pulwama College on April 15 against the entry of an army vehicle into the college premises a day before. However, police fired teargas shells to disperse the protesters, witnesses told KNS, triggering clashes between students and police.
A police official told KNS that the situation was “good” till the forenoon, but turned “bad” after nearly 300 students converged near the police station and started pelting stones on the station and the police chased them away.
“The protesters forced the market shut and disturbed the movement of the traffic on the roads. We tried to disperse them by chasing them away but we were forced to use 3-4 teargas shells after the stone pelting intensified and the situation went out of control,” the official said, whishing not be named.
“Three youths were arrested in the last weeks for stone pelting and today four protesters were arrested for pelting stones on the police station,” he said, adding, that police does not detain or arrest students but “criminals and trouble makers”.
Posters of deceased Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani were raised in a college in Pulwama of Kashmir on Monday. ISIS flags were also raised along with Wani’s posters as students shouted Azadi slogans. Clashes broke out soon after Wani’s posters were raised by students at the government degree college in Pulwama.Posters of Burhan Wani and flags of ISIS were raised by students in protest against security forces in the Valley. On Saturday the Kashmir police had allegedly used force against students and teachers of Polytechnic college in Gogji Bagh area of Srinagar. Students had alleged that they were assaulted for protesting ‘peacefully’ against killings of innocent Kashmiris.Monday’s protest was in retaliation to the crackdown by security forces on Saturday. Poster of Burhan Wani was displayed atop the administrative block of the college with students chanting slogans against security forces. Posters were taken down by force hours later.
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