Overview
- Police in Sopore said Wednesday they arrested five more people after night raids, bringing the total held over protest vandalism to 13.
- The unrest followed Monday’s allegation by a female student that lecturer Ghulam Hassan Mir sexually assaulted her, prompting campus demonstrations.
- Investigators filed a criminal case against Mir, and the Education Department suspended him while a 15-day departmental probe led by the Joint Director for North Kashmir gets underway.
- Local officials paused classwork at the Girls and Boys Higher Secondary Schools and the Government Degree College in Sopore from April 15 to April 18 as a precaution.
- Police said outsiders turned a student protest violent and damaged public property, and more suspects have been identified with further raids planned.