SRINAGAR: At least six government employees have been injured after the police used force to foil their protest march.
Hundreds of employees of Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department gathered near Press Colony to protest in support of their demands, including regularisation of daily-wage and casual workers.
They tried to march forward to the Chief Engineer’s office when the police used batons to disperse them, witnesses say. In the melee at least half a dozen of the were injured.
Nearly two dozen employees, including union leaders, were taken into custody by the police.
The police had a tough time controlling the protests as the employees later protested in dispersed groups.
The protest demonstration was called by the Kashmir PHE Joint Employees Association in support of its demands for regularisation of daily wage workers and casual labourers. They were also demanded that their pending salaries be released.
The employees threatened to launch massive protests from April 18 if their demands were not met.
