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J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah connected Thursday (January 29, 2026) raised the contented of the thrashing of a Kashmiri shawl seller with Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, pursuing an uproar. Meanwhile, the Uttarakhand constabulary lodged a First Information Report into the incident.
In images that went viral online, the victim, identified arsenic Tabish Ahmad, 18, was reportedly beaten up and near with caput injuries astatine Vikas Nagar country of Uttarakhand connected Wednesday (January 28).
“This caller bid of attacks, including successful Himachal Pradesh, and present this one, is unacceptable and indispensable stop. It can’t beryllium claimed that J&K is an inalienable portion of India portion radical from Kashmir, successful different parts of the country, unrecorded successful fearfulness for their lives,” Mr. Abdullah said.
He said the J&K authorities volition measurement successful wherever indispensable and volition bash immoderate is needed to guarantee these incidents are not repeated. “I anticipation the Home Ministry, Govt of India volition besides sensitise different states connected the aforesaid lines,” Mr. Abdullah said.
The J&K Students Association (JKSA), a pan-India students’ radical that tracks specified incidents of harassment of Kashmiris, raised the contented with Deepam Seth, Director General of Police, Uttarakhand.
“The DGP informed the Association that the authorities person taken superior and stringent cognisance of the lawsuit and that contiguous ineligible enactment has been initiated,” JKSA nationalist convenor Nasir Khuehami said.
The FIR has been registered against Sanjay Yadav and 1 different idiosyncratic nether Sections 117(2) and 352 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). “The premier accused, Sanjay Yadav, has been taken into custody, and further ineligible proceedings are presently underway,” Mr. Khuehami said.
He said the DGP assured “strongest imaginable enactment to forestall immoderate signifier of communal intimidation and to guarantee the safety, dignity, and law rights of Kashmiri students and citizens successful the State”.
“No pressure, compromise, oregon colony effort would beryllium allowed to derail the prosecution and that the probe would proceed strictly connected merit to found the afloat series of events, place immoderate further accused, and hole work nether the law,” Mr. Khuehami quoted the DGP arsenic saying.
Several parties successful J&K condemned the incident. Peoples Democratic Party person Iltija Mufti said the 18-year-old Kashmiri shawl vendor was assaulted “with robust rods till his bones crumbled”.
“It’s 1 of galore acts of unit against Kashmiris successful India wherever perpetrators cognize they bask organization impunity. These are not fringe elements anymore. BJP is actively mainstreaming the ‘fringe’ which is nary longer connected the periphery,” Ms. Mufti said.
The Congress said Ahmed was “brutally beaten with robust rods due to the fact that helium is from Kashmir”. “Since 2014, specified incidents person risen time by day, arsenic PM Modi relies connected dividing nine to enactment successful power. Such incidents are nary longer isolated. They are happening repeatedly, particularly successful BJP-ruled states, wherever radical are being misled and turned against 1 different for governmental gain. The societal cloth of our state is being torn apart,” a Congress spokesperson said.
The Congress urged the BJP authorities to “take strict action, clasp the perpetrators accountable, and present justness to the victim’s family”.
J&K Peoples Conference main Sajad Lone said the attacks against Kashmiris crossed the state amusement nary signs of abating. “Even a insignificant has not been spared. This shows a civilization of tolerance crossed the state to specified intolerant incidents.
Regrettably not galore voices successful the state are perturbed astir these events,” Mr Lone said.
CPI(M) person M.Y. Tarigami said these traders question crossed India to gain an honorable livelihood, yet repeated assaults uncover a disturbing signifier that demands urgent enactment and accountability.
