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Students Protesting Against State Board of School Education Fired upon with Tear Smoke Shells

October 03

SHABIR KHAN

The Government Forces on Wednesday morning fired tear smoke shells to disperse a group of students in the main town of North Kashmir’s Sopore.

The students of class 11th were protesting against the conduct of examinations under the supervision of state board of school education (JKBOSE).

Sources told The Kashmiriyat that Dozens of students of boys higher secondary school Sopore assembled in the main town of Sopore and staged a protest over the conduct of 11th class annual examinations under the supervision of board.

The students pelted stone on the troops deployed in the area who retaliated by firing tear smoke shells to disperse the protesters.