SRINAGAR: Two young men from Uttarpradesh and West Bengal states have been arrested in Kashmir on charges of pelting the police with stones during violent anti-India protests.
Mohammad Afzal of Uttar Pradesh and Mohammad Ibrahim of West Bengal, both in their mid-twenties, were arrested in Anantnag district of southern Kashmir on Monday.
Massive protests rocked different parts of the valley since Thursday last over the desecration of holy Quran and subsequent killing of protestors by the Border Security Force in Ramban, 130 kms from here.
The duo, police told the Press Trust of India, had joined protesters who clashed with the police and paramilitaries. They were identified from a video footage of the clashes taken by cops.
A large number of non-locals work as labourers in Kashmir during summer months to earning their livelihood.
This is for the first time in past two decades that any of non-state subject was arrested on the charges of taking part in violent protests in the Valley.
