Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR Jan 20: Protests broke out in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district against alleged harassment of a family by police in a land dispute case pending before court of law.
The Communist Party of India CPI(M) MLA Kulgam, MY Tarigami, condemned the police action and demanded magisterial inquiry into the incident.
People of village Laroo in Kulgam district took to the streets against harassment of a family at the hands of police over family land dispute.
Protesters alleged that the police team picked up four male and two female members of the family last night, without any female cop accompanying them.
They alleged that policemen also beat up the family members including two girls before taking them to a nearby camp last night.
Villagers were demanding action against the policemen for acting beyond their jurisdiction, as the matter was sub judice.
Police said that all the five members of the family of Hamid Sheikh including two ladies were let off after questioning. Police said that the family was called to the police station in connection with a family dispute; wherein in a number of cases have been registered by his son.
The local MLA Tarigami strongly condemned the alleged police highhandedness and demanded a thorough magisterial enquiry over nocturnal police raid.
The MLA said that the girls were detained for the whole night which is not only condemnable but an unacceptable blot on the whole society.
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