Father demanding son’s body charged under anti-terror law in Kashmir

Police charge seven people, including father of teenager killed by government forces, under the stringent UAPA law. The family members of a teenage boy in Indian-administered Kashmir, killed in an alleged gunfight, have been charged under an stringent anti-terror law for holding a demonstration in the village “demanding the return of his body”. Ather Mushtaq, 16, from Bellow village in Pulwama, was among three men killed by Indian security forces on December 30 last year during what police described as a gunfight after the men refused to surrender on the…

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