Srinagar/July,22:Six policemen, including an Assistant Sub-Inspector, were injured after army men thrashed them for allegedly stopping their vehicle at a check-post in Gund area of central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district late Friday night.
A police official said that some private vehicles carrying army personnel of 24 RR in civvies were stopped at a routine naka in Gund late night.
“The army men got down from the vehicles and roughed up the policemen on duty,” he said.
Reports said that the policemen were saved by the locals.
Later, they said, army men from other adjoining camps reached the police station Gund and roughed up other policemen present there and also ransacked the police station.
The injured policemen were hospitalized after the thrashing.
SSP Ganderbal Fayaz Ahmed Lone told Greater Kashmir that they have taken up the matter with the army higher ups who have ordered an inquiry into the incident.
