Highway Horror- “They Thrashed me Likes Animals”- Army Assaults Driver, Protests Erupt in Batengoo
March 06
Suhail Dar
Plying on the Kashmir highway is not a cake walk anymore, 26 year old Yawar Ahmed Malik of Melhoora in Biijbehara area was rounded up by Army men and assaulted for nearly 15 minutes leading to protest in the area on Saturday morning.
Hundreds of drivers and residents including women blocked the Highway connecting Srinagar with Islamabad (anantnag) near Batengoo and shouted slogans against the Army and against the administration for giving a free hand to the Army men.
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"They were driving on the wrong side, i did not even say a word, they came down and took my out of my four wheeler and started beating me without any provocation, my nose bled an...