STATE TIMES NEWS
Srinagar: A group of people, including social activists, staged a protest outside the Hurriyat Conference office here on Monday against the killing of Kashmiri Pandit farmer Puran Krishan Bhat by terrorists last week, officials said.
The Hurriyat denounced what it called hooliganism by sponsored goons with police as bystanders .
The protesters assembled outside the office of the Mirwaiz Umar Farooq-led Hurriyat at Rajbagh here and held a protest. They held the Hurriyat responsible for the bloodshed in Kashmir Valley.
The protesters daubed “India” on the main gate of the Hurriyat’s central building and brought down the signboard of the separatist amalgam, the officials said.
The gate was locked.
The protesters included social activists, municipal corporators and Kashmiri Pandits, the officials added.
One of the protesters said the Hurriyat office will be closed down soon and an orphanage will be run from the building.
Another protester, a Kashmiri Pandit, said the people of Kashmir have realised that they want peace and not bloodshed.
