On Tuesday, family of a girl identified as Asma Jan, who is a student of the Women’s college, alleged that she was picked up by the police and taken to Harwan Police station.
The girl’s picture, in which she can be seen holding a stone, had gone viral on social media. The cops however denied making any such arrest.
Officially, cops at the Harwan police station, where the girl was taken, according to the family, have denied arresting the girl. Even the Kothi Bagh police station, where the girl was taken first, as per the family, said that no such arrest has been made.
An official police source told Free Press Kashmir that the police has counseled the student, and that there was no arrest or detention.
Taking to Free Press Kashmir, the girl’s mother said, “There was not only my daughter there. Scores of boys and girls were throwing stones. Amid that a passenger vehicle passed from there and with many others, my daughter boarded the same.”
“The cops had noted the number of the bus. They questioned the driver and had asked him who all were in the bus. He told them its a passenger vehicle and I don’t know who all boarded however, one of the girls is my neighbour. So, they came and took her to Kothi bagh police station,” the girl’s mother said.
The mother also informed that she was released at 10 pm and reached home around 11:30 pm on Monday. However, in the morning she was again arrested by the police.
“We were asked to report back in the morning at Harwan Police station, “the mother said. However, they didn’t report to the station.
“We got a call from the cops asking us to report to the police station. We went there with our daughter and after some time women cops accompanied her back home. They took her upstairs and after some time they took her back with them to the Harwan Police station.
In wake of the students’ protests against the Kathua rape and murder, the government has been struggling to keep educational institutions open on a regular basis. The student protests, which have been going on for the past two weeks now, refuse to die down.
The principals of the colleges have however blamed the police for ‘disrupting peaceful protests of the students’. Various principals in a meeting told the Education Minister Altaf Bukhari that police interferes with the peaceful protests of the students.
Moreover the Coaching Centers’ Association has refused to accept the govt’s ‘dictate’ to close the centers for a period of 90 days as the order has no ‘clarity’.
