Baramulla, Dec 03, TEN Network | Four people have been arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir police in Baramulla in connection with setting shops ablaze. According to the police,the arrested people confessed that since people were not following the undeclared curfew, they were defying the curfew by keeping their shops open.The arrests have taken place in the last three days.
Three shops were gutted in two fire incidents in Baramulla
Last week, in Baramulla town, three shops were gutted in two fire incidents in the main market area. In the first incident, a three-storeyed textiles and readymade garments complex “Libas Ghar” was gutted in a mysterious fire late in the evening around 8.30 pm. In another incident, a textiles shop on the old Hospital road was partially gutted at around the same time. As the fire started, bystanders and witnesses called the police and the Fire Brigade Department and soon fire tenders were pressed into service to control the fire. In another market area near Cement Bridge, shopkeepers discovered that “miscreants” had sprinkled inflammable material over their shutters in an attempt to set these on fire. (Republic)
