Srinagar: Police have arrested a juvenile delinquent who attacked his schoolmates with a knife in Ganderbal, officials said.
They said that yesterday at about 3 pm, a scuffle broke out between two groups of school students in Ganderbal wherein one student attacked two fellow students with a sharp object/knife resulting in injuries to both of them.
A police spokesperson said that both the injured students were immediately shifted to SKIMS Soura for treatment. The attacker fled from the spot.
“Accordingly, a case FIR No. 116/2023 under relevant sections of law was registered in Police station Ganderbal and an investigation was initiated, ” the police spokesman said.
He said that during the course of the investigation, a team was constituted under the supervision of DySP PC Ganderbal and were deputed to arrest the accused.
“After strenuous efforts, a police team caught the accused near Baroosa. During further investigation, it came to the fore that the incident took place over minor issues and some more students were involved in a scuffle,” he said.
The accused is a student of class 12 and has been aggressive since the beginning and as per the school principal, he was involved in multiple fights with other students in the past also, the spokesman claimed.
With all the legal procedures and formalities, the delinquent will be produced before Juvenile Board, and other students who were involved in the scuffle will also be brought and produced before the board, the police said.
Meanwhile, a woman was arrested on Tuesday for stabbing her fiance in the abdomen in Srinagar, police said.
An official said that Adil Ahmad Kaloo of Bemina Srinagar was stabbed with a knife by his fiancée Asifa Bashir of Parimpora in broad daylight in Chattabal area.
The injured was shifted to a hospital where his condition is stated to be stable.
“The lady was engaged to the victim & nikah had also taken place,” said the official. He said a case (FIR no 57/2023) was lodged at Safakadal police station. “Accused lady has been arrested,” he said.
