Pitched battles between a stone-pelting mob and police were witnessed in some localities that left seven persons, including a policeman injured. Trouble started when residents of Maisuma locality blocked the main road after the disappearance of Asrar Mushtaq Dar, a 2nd year student of Islamia College, since Friday.
Then read this report, Attack on cafe exposes vulnerability of ‘posh’ Srinagar, from the Indian Express.
A stunned silence now inhabits Coffea Arabica, Srinagar’s most famous cafe, after a furious mob vandalised it on Wednesday.
The mob’s immediate provocation was the murder of a 19-year-old youth, Asrar Mushtaq, from Maisuma by still unidentified persons. His body was recovered from a graveyard in the downtown city.
Then this report, Passion crime killed Asrar, from the Hindustan Times.
The curious case of Asrar Mushtaq, 20, who went missing on July 3 and was found with his throat slit four days later, was cracked on Tuesday night.
Police informed he was killed by two jealous rivals, who resented his growing friendship with a local girl on the social networking site Orkut.
Mushtaq’s disappearance sparked furious anti government protests in Srinagar, which reached their peak when his body was discovered. The People’s Democratic Party called a three-day bandh as speculation ran rife about his having been illegally
detained and tortured to death by the security forces.
UPDATE: To finally put this topic to rest, here is the Chief Minister in a report in the Times of India.
CM Omar Abdullah on Friday said those who raise a hue and cry whenever something wrong is done by security forces are maintaining a ‘‘stoic silence’’ on
Thursday’s killing of a child and his father by terrorists.
‘‘They prominently organize marches and give ‘chalo calls’ to highlight violation of human rights,’’ he said. And, fairness, morality and respect for human rights demand these elements should raise same voice whenever terrorists kill civilians, he said.
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