{"id":7924,"date":"2017-10-18T11:12:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T11:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=7924"},"modified":"2017-10-18T11:12:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T11:12:35","slug":"braid-chopping-four-soldiers-face-mob-fury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/braid-chopping-four-soldiers-face-mob-fury\/","title":{"rendered":"Braid-chopping: Four soldiers face mob fury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Srinagar,<\/h2>\n
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At least four Kashmiri soldiers were beaten up today on the suspicion of being braid- choppers in separate incidents at Kupwara and Ganderbal in Kashmir.<\/p>\n

A soldier was beaten up by a mob in the frontier district of Kupwara on the suspicion of being involved in a braid-chopping incident on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The soldier of the Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry was rescued from the mob by colleagues and the police.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe locals accused the soldier of being involved in braid-chopping. But our investigation so far has found nothing as such,\u201d said Senior Superintendent of Police,<\/p>\n

Kupwara, Shamsher Hussain. \u201cWe are looking at all angles.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the police reached the spot while the soldier was being beaten up. Locals alleged that the soldier barged into the house of a resident of Redi Chowkibal,<\/p>\n

Ghulam Nabi, and sprayed some chemical to cut the hair of a woman.<\/p>\n

An Army spokesman, issuing a statement late in the evening, said a mob stopped the last vehicle of an Army convoy when they were protesting against some<\/p>\n

alleged braid-chopping incident. \u201cWhen a soldier dismounted to learn about the issue, the mob surrounded him and started manhandling him despite a part of<\/p>\n

the crowd trying to stop the instigators by saying that the soldier had nothing to do with the incident. The troops exercised extreme caution and fired a few<\/p>\n

rounds in the air to disperse the mob and retrieve the soldier. The vehicle rejoined the convoy,\u201d the spokesman said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe soldier was sent for medical treatment and is now stable. The instigators have been identified and suitable action has been initiated against the culprits,\u201d<\/p>\n

the Army spokesman added.<\/p>\n

Clashes erupted in the area after the incident. However, the situation was brought under control by the police.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a video of the incident has gone viral on the social media.<\/p>\n

The authorities had also imposed restrictions in the Maisuma locality in Srinagar over an alleged incident of braid-chopping on Monday.<\/p>\n

In ganderbal, three Territorial Army personnel were thrashed and their private car was set ablaze in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Police sources said a group of people intercepted a car at Akhal Kangan and mistook them as braid-choppers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Srinagar, At least four Kashmiri soldiers were beaten up today on the suspicion of being braid- choppers in separate incidents at Kupwara and Ganderbal in Kashmir. A soldier was beaten up by a mob in the frontier district of Kupwara on the suspicion of being involved in a braid-chopping incident on Tuesday. The soldier of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7926,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7924\/revisions\/7926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}