Srinagar, August 17, 2011: Anumber of youth arrested in the on-going police crackdown has said that the police personnel have been subjected to violence in custody.
Dozens of detainees who were shifted to the Central Jail Srinagar on charges of pro-freedom protests and stone-pelting were seen in an injured condition, an eyewitness in the prison said.
Another batch of over a score of detainees brought to the jail on Tuesday, August 17 on the same charges also included some injured youth, the sources said.
Police arrested dozens of youth during nocturnal raids on their homes in last two weeks.
On the other hand, three members of a family were injured when some unidentified masked men attacked them with sharp edged weapons inside their home in Dangiwacha-Rafiabad in Baramulla district. The assailants barged into the house of one Ghulam Mohammad Mir at Markipora in Dangiwacha and attacked his son Aijaz Ahmad (22) and two daughters Hamima (20) and Kulsooma (18) with some sharp edged weapons, the police reports said. All the injured have been referred to Soura Institute of Medical Sciences in Srinagar. The doctors have said that the condition of one injured Aijaz Ahmad is critical as he has been injured in the neck.