KP Web Desk 14,oct,2017
Clashes erupted in Boniyar area of Uri in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Saturday after a woman’s braid was chopped off.
Reports said that people took to streets and staged massive protests after police took custody of the alleged braid chopper.
They said that the residents caught hold of a youth who they alleged was behind the braid-cutting incident.
However, police arrived at the scene and took custody of the alleged braid-chopper, said a local, adding that it angered the residents who staged a protest.
He said that the police resorted to cane-charge and teargas shelling to disperse the protesters.
Several protesters were injured during the clashes, said the local.
Hair of over one hundred girls and women in many parts of the Valley has been mysteriously found chopped during the past month.
These girls and women have told their families and police that unknown persons cut their hair after knocking them unconscious with some spray.
The police have formed Special Investigation Teams to probe the incidents. However, so far the police and the authorities have been clueless.
The police have announced a reward of Rs six lakh for credible information leading to arrest of any person behind braid chopping incidents. So far, no arrests have been made.
At several places, vigilante mobs have thrashed innocents mistaking them for braid choppers.
