Waris Shah
Heaps of paddy dry Grass were gutted in a mysterious blaze at Chee area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Sunday evening.
Eyewitnesses told The Kashmiriyat that heaps of Paddy crops of nearly 4000 bundles belonging to Azad Ah Dar, Manzoor Ah Dar, Abdul Aziz Ganie & 3500 bundles of Mohd Ashraf Rather were reduced to ashes.
“The fire has been brought under control after desperate attempts by the F&E Service Deptt and locals to douse off the flames,” an official said.
He said that the police reached the spot and assured the locals that anybody found involved in this crime will be dealt strictly.
This is not the first incident of it’s type in Kashmir, earlier unknown persons set ablaze crops in Anantnag’s Deethu area on 07 October.
On 11 October, Unknown persons in the dark of the night set ablaze crops in Shangus area of South Kashmir’s Islamabad (Anantnag) district.