காஷ்மீர போலீசுக்கு எதிராக மக்கள் ஆர்ப்பாட்டம்

காஷ்மீரில் காஷ்மீர போலீஸாராலும் மற்ற காஷ்மீரிகளாலும் கொல்லப்பட்டு வரும் அப்பாவி காஷ்மீரி இந்துக்கள் முதன்முறையாக எதிர்த்து குரல் கொடுத்திருக்கிறார்கள்.

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Thousands protest after Hindu dies in Kashmir

SRINAGAR, India (AFP) - Teargas was fired Saturday to disperse thousands of angry villagers protesting after police allegedly battered to death a Hindu man, witnesses said.



The protests erupted on the outskirts of Jammu, the restive state's winter capital.

Villagers said Kewal Ram, a state government employee, had been battered by police during an argument Friday evening.

Doctors at Jammu's main hospital declared him "dead on arrival."

Several thousand villagers Saturday blocked the main highway round Jammu and demanded a murder case be filed against police

Police admitted using teargas and batons to scatter the villagers, who later re-assembled and continued their demonstrations.

"Senior police and civil official are trying to placate them," a police spokesman said in the summer capital Srinagar.

"An assistant sub-inspector has been detained for questioning and a departmental enquiry has been ordered into the incident," he said.

Police, however, denied Ram was beaten-up.

The protest came two days after DNA tests carried out on the corpses of two men killed by security forces as Muslim militants showed they were innocent civilians.

Investigations are underway in five cases where innocent civilians were allegedly detained, killed and passed off as militants. Mass protests have erupted over this month over the "fake encounter" murders.