{"id":311839,"date":"2019-05-02T12:10:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T12:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311839"},"modified":"2019-05-02T12:10:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T12:10:35","slug":"security-forces-make-arrests-in-south-kashmir-ahead-of-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/security-forces-make-arrests-in-south-kashmir-ahead-of-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Security forces make arrests in South Kashmir ahead of polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-311840 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/army-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"471\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/army-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/army-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/army-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/army.jpg 459w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">With the last leg of the three-phased election in South Kashmir&#8217;s Anantnag parliamentary constituency being held on May 6, the security forces\u00a0 launched an arrest spree in Pulwama and Shopian districts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to reports, around 30 youth have been arrested on Wednesday night, taking the number of arrests made over the last three days to around 150.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The arrests are being made during night raids.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This, a government official said, is being done to facilitate the smooth conduct of the elections in the troubled constituency. Already two phases have been held in constituency with a cumulative percentage of around 10 percent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hurriyat (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq\u00a0 \u201cstrongly condemned\u201d the arrest spree in south Kashmir\u2019s districts\u00a0 ahead of parliamentary elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cStrongly condemn the daily arrest spree of youth from Pulwama and Shopian. Continued repression in #SouthKashmir is heart rending.\u00a0Unless all those who claim to speak for fundamental #HumanRights of all don\u2019t speak up, people of Kashmir will continue to be at the receiving end,\u201d he said\u00a0\u201d said the Mirwaiz on Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the last leg of the three-phased election in South Kashmir&#8217;s Anantnag parliamentary constituency being held on May 6, the security forces\u00a0 launched an arrest spree in Pulwama and Shopian districts.\u00a0 According to reports, around 30 youth have been arrested on Wednesday night, taking the number of arrests made over the last three days to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[1141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311841,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311839\/revisions\/311841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}