Indian occupation police detained Mohammad Yasin Malik, head of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front and fired teargas shells to scatter protesters here on Wednesday, the fourth straight day of protests against the rape of a young girl and her mother by an occupation soldier.
Hundreds of protesters who gathered in the heart of occupied Srinagar pelted stones at police who retaliated by picking them up and throwing them back.
Malik said that the Indian occupation police beat him at the UN office, but a police officer denied the charge. He said Yasin Malik was taken into custody for disturbing public order.
In many parts of occupied Srinagar, shops and offices remained closed in protest and a number of streets were largely empty.
The sexual assault by an army major, as well as a row between the interior ministry and political leaders, has created a storm ahead of a planned trip by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh next week.
"India is using rape as a war weapon," Asiya Andrabi, chief of the Dukhtaran-e-Millat, said in a statement. "The Handwara incident is not an isolated incident."
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