Pellet victims avoid treatment in Kashmir ‘to evade arrests’

A number of youth hit by pellets during street protests in Kashmir avoid getting treated in Valley hospitals to evade arrests and persecution by police, medicos said on Saturday. Doctors at SK Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) and SMHS hospital here, who insisted not to be identified, said they treat “only a few victims of pellet guns because most of the victims go for treatment elsewhere, mostly outside the Valley, to evade arrests by police and the subsequent persecution.” Informed sources told that three youth with pellet injured were ‘seen’…

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