Videos of two Kashmiri men being made to chant anti-India slogans at gunpoint have surfaced, a week after the violence Srinagar saw during the bypoll last week, NDTV reported. The videos are doing the rounds on social media.
Videos of two Kashmiri men being made to chant anti-India slogans at gunpoint have surfaced, a week after the violence Srinagar saw during the bypoll last week, NDTV reported. The videos are doing the rounds on social media.
The first video is of a PDP worker. According to PDP, the video was recorded over two weeks ago, before the bypoll. A group of gunmen allegedly got into Wali Mohammad Bhat's house, NDTV quotes sources as saying. In the video, a scared Bhat is heard saying he does not relate to politics that is pro-India and chants the slogans given to him by the men. An AK-47 is pointed at him by someone off camera.
In another video, trade union leader Bashir Ahmad Wani is seen as saying he would stop doing everything else and say anti-India slogans.
This comes in the wake of the controversial video, showing a man tied to an army vehicle purportedly as a shield against stone pelters during polling in the Srinagar Lok Sabha bypoll. The video triggered a public outcry, prompting civil and army authorities to launch separate investigations.
In her meeting with Gen Rawat, the Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti raised the issue of the video that has now gone viral on social media. Gen Rawat has assured the J&K CM of timely action against the personnel who were responsible for the act of tying the man to the vehicle at Budgam.
According to the sources, the army officials told a probe team that they had received a call from the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and the local police guarding a polling station to save them from a mob that was out to lynch them. The army convoy rushed in from Kandipura and tied 36- year-old Farooq Dar to a jeep, they said. This incident, which took place on April 9, was shot by unidentified persons on their mobiles and the video showing Dar being used as a shield against stone-pelting protesters was circulated on social media.
The video surfaced days after another clip, showing a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel walking down a street being beaten up by some youths, triggered nationwide outrage.
On Sunday, Army Chief General Bipin Rawat apprised National Security Advisor Ajit Doval of the security situation in Kashmir, amidst growing outrage in the Valley over the controversial "human shield" video. Rawat's meeting with Doval comes a day after he had separate deliberations with Mufti and Governor NN Vohra over the law and order situation in Kashmir during his visit to the state.
Government sources told PTI the Army chief called on Doval at his residence and briefed him about the overall state of security in the Kashmir Valley.
(With PTI inputs)
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
 "screenshot from video")
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
)
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
)
)
)
)
)
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}