Separatists make it personal, name police officers for “Firing Pellets on Protesters”

In a first, Hurriyat Conference has named a police officer for “firing pellets on protesters” and called him a “butcher and criminal”. In what seems to be emerging as a new trend that spells grave personal danger for law enforcement officials in troubled Kashmir Valley, both separatist forces and locals in different areas have begun holding police officials personally responsible for deaths in the ongoing unrest and threatening them with dire consequences. In a first, Hurriyat Conference has named a police officer for “firing pellets on protesters” and called him…

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