Hurriyat Conference leaders Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Bilal Lone were today manhandled allegedly by a group of Kashmiri Pandit activists who stormed a seminar being attended by them in Chandigarh. Commotion broke out when the group barged into the seminar hall and dashed towards the dais where the separatist leaders were seated. Eyewitnesses said, during the pandemonium, some of the activists manhandled the two separatist leaders. The incident took place when the Mirwaiz started addressing a seminar on Kashmir and Indo-Pak relations. Our correspondent reports that the situation is now peacful and the heavy police force has been deployed outside the premises where seminar is going on, in which Mirwaiz is participating.
News On AIR | November 25, 2010 2:04 PM
Hurriyat Conference leaders manhandled in seminar