Oppose new truck union, face tough police action Injured persons, damaged houses, deserted roads and hundreds of stranded trucks barely 20 km from the city centre in Srinagar show alleged police brutality against people of Khrew, an industrial area in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district with big cement factories. For over a month, truckers in Khrew, where transportation of cement from both private and government-run factories was the main source of livelihood, had been protesting against private factory owners for allegedly floating a separate truck union, Alkhudam. To transport cement from…
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