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Braid chopping knocking at the LoC, but will it jump the fence

YB WEB DESK. Dated: 10/16/2017 12:44:37 PM

With the length and breadth of Kashmir already passing through the mysterious braid chopping, the crisis has finally reached Uri. With four chopping incidents paralyzing the life in the border town on Sunday, the crisis is literally knocking at the LoC.

“The crisis has moved from south to north,” one senior police officer said. “It has reached Uri and now it remains to be seen if it jumped over the LoC fence or uses the Kaman bridge to crossover.”

On Monday, an unconfirmed report from south Kashmir said that “two choppers” barged into a home and wanted to chop the braid of a girl. But the father resisted and offered himself. So they cut a part of his beard and left! Police said they are aware of the “rumour” and are trying to verify the details of it, if at all it has happened.


A graph of braid chopping incidents suggests Srinagar peaked
As the rumour reached Srinagar, the students of Islamia College were already out of their classrooms to protest against the menace of braid chopping. Reports said the students assembled in the premises of the college, resorted to sloganeering for some time. They wanted to move out on the road but the faculty prevailed.

But the protest resumed within minutes after police allegedly fired smoke shells inside the campus, said a student from the college. The clashes between the students, who are inside the college and the police, outside college, is presently going on as the last reports came in.

Earlier in the morning, there was an incident reported from Sopore. In Ningli village, an elderly woman said two persons ct her braid. This triggered protests in the area. The town and its peripheries are witnessing increased incidence of braid chopping. On Sunday, two such reports were received from two different areas.