Ashiq Hussain
SRINAGAR: Stone pelting and aerial firing rattled Kashmir’s northern town of Sumbal on Friday.
But that had nothing to with the tense situation in rest of the valley, where a curfew was in force to prevent violent protests over the killing of a young man by CRPF.
Their problem was simply an electric transformer.
A small dispute between two villages of Arampora turned ugly to such an extent that bullets were fired in air and stone missiles rained on villagers, hurled by each other.
A police official said that Bashir Ahmad Ganie fired some aerial shots with his 12-bore rifle – mainly used by hunters in the valley – when a scuffle took place between inhabitants of Ganie Mohallah and Sofi Mohallah in Arampora.
“One village is to install a new electric transformer for which they need to supply High tension over the fields of other village, which is objecting against the wire laying” the official said.
“The issue is pending between the two villages for past some time and today they pelted stones on one another,” he added.
Police have registered a case and arrested four persons after the violent clash.
