By News Agency of Kashmir,
Srinagar : More than 50 activists of the Jammu and Kashmir Employees’ Joint Action Committee (EJAC) were injured, 2 of them seriously, when the police resorted to cane-charge and used water cannon to disburse the agitating employees near Civil Secretariat at Srinagar on Thursday.
Sources informed News Agency of Kashmir that about 100 employees have also been arrested by the police when they were trying to ‘ghearao’ Civil Secretariat at Srinagar. However, the Committee has given a strike call for tomorrow in protest against the police action on “peaceful protestors.”
Police using water cannon against employees at Srinagar on Wednesday
The members of Jammu and Kashmir Employees’ Joint Action Committee were holding a protest and tried to ‘ghearao’ legislative assembly but the police had to use force to disperse the protesting employees when they were about to reach outside civil secretariat premises.
Sources further informed that when the cane charge had no affect, police fired several rounds of teargas shells to disperse them and brought the situation under control.
Reports said that the injured were shifted to nearby hospitals for treatment while two of them identified as Mohammad Shafi Hanief and Mohammad Iqbal, who got critical injuries, were shifted to SKIMS hospital for treatment.
“We were holding a peaceful demonstration as the present government had failed to implement the agreement that they had reached with the employees but when we reached near the civil secretariat, the police resorted to brutalities to crush our voice,” Abdul Qayum Wani, the president of EJAC, told News Agency of Kashmir.
He informed that more than 50 employees got injuries in police action while condition of 2 employees, who were admitted to the SKIMS hospital, was stated to be critical. He further informed that police have also arrested more than 100 employees.
He disclosed that the Committee has given a strike call for tomorrow in protest against the police action and urged the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad to intervene into the matter and concede the genuine demands of the employees.