Watch: Kashmiri shawl seller assaulted in Uttarakhand; forced to chant ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai'

DEHRADUN: A 28-year-old Kashmiri shawl seller was allegedly assaulted by a radical of men successful Kashipur, Udham Singh Nagar district, aft they learnt helium was from Kashmir and tried to unit him to chant a slogan.

The incidental surfaced connected Thursday aft a video of the battle went viral connected societal media.Bilal Ahmed Ganie, a nonmigratory of Kupwara, said helium has been selling shawls arsenic a hawker successful the country for the past 8 years and had ne'er faced specified a concern earlier. He alleged that connected Monday, portion moving doorway to doorway to merchantability his wares, helium was stopped by 5 to six men riding motorcycles.

“They asked my sanction and wherever I was from. When I said Kashmir, they started beating maine with kicks and punches.

One of them deed my legs with a cane and I fell to the ground. They asked maine to accidental ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’. I said I would proudly accidental ‘Hindustan Zindabad’ arsenic this is our country,” Ganie told TOI. He said that the men tried to unit him onto their motorcycle but fled aft passersby intervened. Following the incident, Ganie said helium and different Kashmiri hawkers successful the country person stopped venturing retired for enactment owed to fear. “My household is disquieted and asking maine to return, but I archetypal request to retrieve wealth from customers who bought goods connected credit.

I privation strict enactment truthful this is not repeated with anyone else,” helium said.Taking enactment of the matter, the Jammu & Kashmir Students Association connected Thursday, wrote to Uttarakhand DGP Deepam Seth, seeking ineligible enactment against those progressive and an impartial investigation. JKSA nationalist convenor Nasir Khuehami said the incidental had created fearfulness among Kashmiri traders who beryllium connected seasonal enactment successful the region. “Despite the seriousness of the incident, nary FIR has been registered truthful far.

Kashmiris are an integral portion of the state and are entitled to the aforesaid rights and freedoms arsenic immoderate different citizen,” Khuehami said. Meanwhile, US Nagar SSP Manikant Mishra said constabulary had offered assistance to the hawker connected the time of the incidental and asked him to record a ceremonial complaint. “He past said helium did not privation an FIR. As per procedure, the accused were summoned, the video was removed from societal media and they apologised,” Mishra said. Mishra said that aft the video resurfaced online, constabulary again contacted the hawker connected Thursday and urged him to lodge a complaint. “Once a ailment is filed, an FIR volition beryllium registered and further ineligible enactment volition follow,” the SSP said.