Lawyers, BJP supporters enforced shutdown in Jammu damaged vehicles, heckled scribes

Jammu: Most of the Kashmiris were heckled in Jammu city and abused by a group of lawyers and BJP supporters while on way from Jewel Chowk to Shalimar road in Jammu city.
Lawyers and BJP supporters were protesting near Shalimar Jammu carrying lathis and tricolor in their hands rebuking and demonizing those commuters who plied on the road.
“We were travelling in private vehicle when protesting goons stopped the driver of a private vehicle we were boarding and thrashed him unnecessarily. They rebuked him for carrying Kashmiri in his vehicle. They abused and heckled us” said a group of Kashmiris presently in Jammu on conditions of annonymity.
He alleged that police personnel on duty acted as mute spectators.
The scribe said that protesting lawyers were carrying BJP flags and were hurling stones on vehicles. They targeted government vehicles and smashed their windowpanes.
Pertinently, Jammu Bar Association had called for a shutdown against settlements of Rohingya refugees in Jammu, for transfer of Asifa murder case investigations to the CBI and against the minutes of a government meeting which said that tribals would not be evicted from lands they have occupied over the years