However, the girl denied the allegations via a video clip that went viral on social media.
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“After school was over, I entered a washroom (near the bunker)”. I was shocked and confused about what he had said.
One of those killed in army firing in Handwara town of Kashmir on Tuesday was Nayeem Bhat.
A youth was killed on Wednesday when a tear gas shell hit his head as protesters took to the streets in Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir against the killing of three people earlier. “We begged the police officer not to shoot him, but he opened fire and Nayeem was hit in the abdomen”. The man later succumbed to the injury.
Nayeem was killed on Tuesday afternoon when protests erupted in Handwara after the news of an alleged molestation bid on a girl student by an Army man, inside a public convenience, located near an Army camp.
Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi followed by a meeting with Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar to demand a “time-bound inquiry” into the firing incident that has caused unrest in the state. “The family of the deceased will be given all possible help”, she said. She said such disastrous incidents have a vast pessimistic impact on the labours of the government and the political management meant at combining the concord efforts in the state.
A cab driver was injured in a stone-pelting incident in Kulgam, the official said. Sources say that 35 civilians have been injured so far.
The Separatists are seeking for a strike across the Kashmir Valley, while some parts of Srinagar, are also taken under curfew-like restrictions today.
The police said preliminary reports indicated there was no such incident of molestation and that it may have been an attempt by locals to create trouble. Markets remained closed while public transport was off the roads due to the strike.
The authorities imposed restrictions in Handwara and adjacent areas.
Protests were on Wednesday reported from a number of other places as well even as authorities imposed curfew-like restrictions in six police station areas of Srinagar city and Handwara area of Kupwara in north Kashmir, a police official said.
A criminal case has been registered in police station Handwara and investigation launched to ascertain the facts, it added. “It is a matter of investigation now”.
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Terming the killings “highly regrettable”, the Army’s Srinagar-based spokesman, Lt Colonel NN Joshi said “anybody found guilty would be brought to book”.
