Two Kashmiri vendors were allegedly harassed and threatened with dire consequences in separate incidents in Haryana over the past two days. A First Information Report (FIR) has been registered in one of the incidents.
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti’s daughter, Iltija Mufi, has posted the over one-minute video from Haryana’s Kaithal on her official X account, tagging Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Saini and Director General of Police demanding them to take cognisance of the incident. “A Kashmiri shawl vendor is yet again harassed, abused and heckled in Haryana. You abuse and misbehave with Kashmiris and then conveniently dub them as ‘anti-nationals’ all in the same breath. Are we subhuman?,” read the post two days ago.
In the video emerging from Kaithal’s Kalayat, a local man speaking in Haryanvi dialect is heard confronting the vendor sitting on a concrete bench asking him to chant “Vande Matram”. The man, yet to be identified, talks about the atrocities against the Hindus in Bangladesh and asks the vendor to leave immediately; threatening to set him ablaze.
Superintendent of Police, Kaithal, Upasana told The Hindu over phone that the police took suo motu cognisance of the matter to register a case two days ago and efforts were on to identify the accused, who was not seen in the video.
