Shoe hurled at Omar at I-Day function
Srinagar, August 15: An Assistant Sub Inspector of Jammu and Kashmir Police hurled a brown leather shoe at chief minister Omar Abdullah during the Independence Day function at a heavily-guarded Bakshi Stadium in Srinagar on Sunday.
Abdullah was just about to take the salute after unfurling the tricolour when Jan sitting in the VIP Lounge behind the Chief Minister flung a shoe which missed him.
Jan is an Assistant Sub-Inspector with the Jammu and Kashmir Police, and hails from Ajas in north Kashmir's Bandipora district. He was rounded up by Abdullah's security men as he shouted 'pro-freedom' and 'anti-India' slogans before being whisked out of the Bakhshi Stadium, the venue for the Independence Day celebrations.
Eyewitnesses said that Jan was holding a black flag at the I-Day celebration Venue and had come in plain clothes. -www.kashmirglobal.com
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