The Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) has condemned the assault on two Kashmiri dry fruit vendors in Lucknow on Wednesday.
A spokesperson of the KCCIsaid: “The registration of the case under weak and feeble provisions of rioting and breach of peace, for whichonly one person has been booked, seems to have been intentionally done tofacilitate the early release of the culprit. The videos of the incident clearlyshow it to be a case of attempt to murder and how the Uttar Pradesh police interpreted it to be a case of one man riotis indicative of external influence.”
“More condemnable than theattack was the state patronage extended to goons and hooligans in Uttar Pradeshand other states,” he added.
He urged the J&KGovernor Satya Pal Malik to use his good offices for ensuring that cases areregistered for “attempt to murder and other stringent provisions of criminallaw against the goons and the organisations they belong to”.