Poonch, May 18: Poonch and Rawalkot traders’ associated with cross LoC trade, on Tuesday decided to suspend the trade in protest against the alleged unnecessary intervention by the police authorities.
 A trader associated with the Cross LOC trade, Pawan Kumar told Greater Kashmir that a police officer posted in district Poonch was resorting to unnecessary harassment to the traders, due to unknown reasons.  Pawan said that the said officer has been deputed to provide security to the traders associated with the cross LoC trade, while there were other officers for checking of formalities and other documents appointed by the government. “He seems to be adamant to destabilize the trade which is going on smoothly, for the reasons best known to him”, Pawan said .
 Giving details, he said that all traders associated with the Cross LoC trade have decided to stop the trade from Tuesday in protest against the harassment being meted out to the traders by the officer.  He said that till appropriate action was taken against the officer, the traders will not take part in the trade.  The trader further claimed that the traders associated with the trade have been given license after proper investigation, but some officers are unnecessarily harassing the traders. Another Trader Abdul Gani Malik also accused the officer of indulging in harassment to the traders and demanded that the officers should be immediately removed from the place.

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