Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Nov 9: Police today said four miscreants including three minors involved in the arson incidents in which a school building and a wheel cart were set ablaze have been arrested from Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district.
A police spokesman said as was reported that on October 27 in the evening, some miscreants attempted to set on fire Government Boys Middle school Duderhama at Ganderbal by hurling a petrol bomb. In the incident some furniture of the school caught fire, he said, adding that in another incident, miscreants set on fire a wheel cart of a fruit vendor namely Abdul Hamid Kandroo in which the cart was completely damaged.
The spokesman said case under FIR numbers 212/2016 and 214/2016 were registered respectively into the incidents and investigation was taken up. He said keeping in view the gravity of offences a Special Investigation Team (SIT) was constituted.
“During the investigation four accused identified as Yasir Mukdoomi, Azam, Huzaif Rashid and Mubashir Ahmad Tantray were identified and subsequently arrested. During the questioning they confessed their involvement in crime,” he said.
The police spokesman claimed that during the investigation it further surfaced that Yasir Mukdoomi, a medical practitioner, was the main instigator behind these incidents and the conspiracy to burn schools etc was hatched by him at his medical shop at Duderhama.
“Besides he provided petrol to the other accused and helped them to make petrol bombs that could cause fire. All the four people after found involved in these arson incidents were arrested and subsequently produced before the Court. Among the accused, three are minor and are being dealt under relevant sections of law,” he added.
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