SRINAGAR: With the arrest of five alleged stone-pelters, police today claimed to have solved a case of burning down of a Government school in Kashmir which has witnessed a series of incidents in which the educational institutes were set ablaze over the last few months.
Five youth allegedly involved in setting ablaze a Government middle school at Tapper village of Pattan, about 30 kms from here, on Srinagar-Baramulla national highway were arrested while search is on for their two other associates, a police spokesman said.
He said the school building was set ablaze in the wee hours of October 27.
“During the investigation it surfaced that the conspiracy regarding the incident was hatched at the medical shop of one Ajaz Ahmad Parra, the spokesman said. (AGENCIES)
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