Yasir Yousuf
A Kashmir-based journalist was allegedly assaulted by Government force personnel in Anantnag town of South Kashmir on Tuesday morning.
Speaking to The Kashmiriyat, Mudasir Reshi said that he was rounded by Force personnel on Tuesday morning when he was traveling towards his office located in the main town of Anantnag.
Mudasir is the associate editor of Prime post- a Kashmir-based fortnightly news magazine.
“I was stopped at a Naka in the Ashajipora area of Anantnag. The Force personnel rounded me up asking me to wear a mask. I was traveling alone in my car, so I told them it was no mandatory for me to wear a mask,” Mudasir said.
After which the Force personnel got angry and started misbehaving with him, he said.
He told The Kashmiriyat that the forces abused him and forced him out of his car. “As per an advisory issued by the Health Ministry, if a person is a travelling alone in a vehicle, it is not mandatory to wear a mask. As I was trying to make him understand it, he started misbehaving and snatched the keys of the car,” he added.
“Once I stepped out of the vehicle, he suddenly got angry and slapped me twice and smashed me to the road,” he alleged.
During the incident, Mudasir suffered multiple injuries after which he was to shifted to the nearby hospital, where he had to undergo various tests. “If the police personnel had a rifle in hand, he would have shot me, such was his anger at that time,” Mudasir said.
Prime post editor speaking to The Kashmiriyat said that it contacted the concerned police station, which assured to look into the matter.