KL NEWS NETWORK
SRINAGAR
Police have arrested at least four Kashmiri youths in India’s Southern state of Karnataka during the intervening night of Thursday and Friday. They are among 30 youths under going training through Udaan, a union government sponsored scheme.
Speaking to Kashmir Life from Bangalore on Friday morning, one Kashmiri youth said, “police arrested our four other colleagues around 12 last night.”
The four detained youths were identified as Aquib Ahmad, Mohammad Amir, Mudasir Ahmad and Mohammad Faizan. These Kashmiri youths are undergoing training at Gumbi Software Pvt Ltd.
They are in Bangalore for last two months.
“One of our colleagues from Kashmir was infected with dengue and he has been admitted to Mysore Hospital,” he said, “last night around 9:30 PM, these four youths went to see him in the hospital. They returned around 11:30 PM.”
When the youths reached their hostel-cum-training centre at Yashwantpur, the security guard of the building did not allow them to enter the premises. They exchanged arguments and the Kashmiri youths entered the hostel crossing over the boundary wall “as it was too late in the night”.
“Soon, the warden reached the hostel and asked all of us to come down,” he added. “The warden, Shainesh, harassed our friends who had just entered the hostel.”
He said that the warden called police and “told them something in their local language which we could not understand”. “Aquib, Amir, Mudasir and Faizan were first ruthlessly beaten and then whisked in police van,” he said.
These four youths are still under police detention and when Kashmir Life contacted the Dy SP of the police post concerned, he did not respond.
Post Script:
These thirty Kashmiri youths are undergoing training through Udaan which may extend up to six months. They are living in “one big room” with equal number of beds. In last some days, a few of them were infected with dengue of whom one, Muneeb Ahmad from Baramulla district, is still in hospital.
