Govt school headmaster of Shopian beaten up inside Indian army camp
Islamabad (Anantnag) Aug 26 2018: A government school headmaster was ruthlessly 
beaten up by Indian army soldiers – after summoning him to their camp and charged him and other teachers of propagating pro-freedom (Azadi) teachings at the school, in Shopian district of south Kashmir.
The headmaster of Government Upper Primary School in Daramdora village of Shopian identified as Mushtaq Ahmad Mir, son of Abdul Rehman Mir, resident of Mughalpora village in Pulwama district.
The headmaster Mir while talking to Srinagar based newspaper Kashmir Reader that he received a call on Saturday from Indian army men summoning him to the 44-Rashtriya Rifles camp in nearby Hawl village.
On Saturday, however, he said he was made to wait at the camp gate for half an hour before being taken to an interrogation centre inside the Indian army camp.
“They kept beating me, blaming me of propagating pro-freedom and anti-India teachings at the school,” Mir said, adding that the Indian army men, in presence of the officials, kept beating him ruthlessly for almost three hours.
The headmaster was asked to give names of teachers with pro-freedom ideology and was also accused of making students write anti-India slogans on school walls. He said that he pleaded with the officials saying he was diabetic, but they paid no heed. “They kept beating me ruthlessly. I was let go of after about three hours of torture, following which I called one of my teachers who took me to hospital,” Mir said. Mushtaq Ahmad Mir has not been able to sit properly since the beating, even for a photograph of his to be clicked for the newspaper. “I am in absolute pain,” he said, adding that his condition did not allow him to go file a complaint before the police.
The said Indian army camp in Hawl, of the 44 Rashtirya Rifles, was recently in news after residents of Arbal Nikas village protested the highhandedness of the Indian army officials and personnel of the camp.
The protesting residents had demanded immediate removal of the camp from the area.