SRINAGAR: A newly opened wine shop located in the Potha area of Poonch’s Surankote subdivision was gutted in a mysterious blaze while police have started an investigation into the matter.
People of the area had resisted the opening of the wine shop followed by massive protests in the last three weeks. People took out rallies, demanding the closure of this shop.
A protest was also going on at Surankote sub-division headquarters led by DDC member Shahnawaz Chowdhary in which the participants were putting forth their demand for the closure of this wine shop.
Meanwhile, in the intervening night of Sunday-Monday, officials said, this shop was gutted in a mysterious blaze.
In the incident, they said, the liquor kept inside the shop got damaged while other temporary infrastructure installed in the shop also got reduced to ashes. (KNO)
