Srinagar: A group of students set afire a police vehicle in Ganderbal district of Jammu and Kashmir after personal security guards of a Congress MLC opened fire to disperse the protestors, officials said.
Students of a government school blocked the road at Mujgund in Sumbal area to protest the absence of teaching staff in their school, they said.
Officials said Congress MLC Ali Mohammad Bhat was passing through the area and his security guards asked the students to let his vehicle pass, which they refused. Following a brief argument, the guards opened fire in air to disperse the crowd, they said.
The firing further incited the students who set on fire the vehicle of station house officer of police station Sumbal, they said, adding police resorted to cane charge to chase away the students.
Neither any case has been registered nor any arrest effected so far in connection with the firing incident or the burning of the police vehicle, officials said. Earlier, workers of Congress and People's Democratic Party (PDP), partners in the ruling coalition in the state, clashed with each other seeking credit for creation of Ganderbal district.
Both the groups clashed at new district headquarters at Ganderbal as they had assembled outside the deputy commissioner's office, which began to function today.
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