Added on May 1, 2019
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LS Polls: Almost 40 persons detained in Pulwama, Shopian in two days
Pulwama: Police has launched a massive crackdown on youth suspected of ‘being stone pelters’ ahead of Lok Sabha Polls in Pulwama and Shopian district with almost 400 persons arrested in two days.
The twin districts will go to polls on May 3 for Anantnag parliamentary constituency held in three phases.
In the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday police raided three localities including Newa, Gudoora and Parigam areas of Pulwama and detained nineteen youth.
Local sources said that forces cordoned off the villages and detained the youth.
“Nineteen boys have been picked up,” locals said.
At least twenty four youth were detained in a nocturnal raid in Pulwama and Shopian during intervening night of Monday and Tuesday.