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Shawl sellers from Kashmir asked where they’re from, assaulted in Dehradun; 18-year-old suffers head injury
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The Indian Express
The shopkeeper asked where we were from, and we told him that we were from Kashmir.
After that, the shopkeeper began abusing us, using slurs, and, along with two unknown persons, assaulted both brothers severely.
“This 18-year-old Kashmiri shawl vendor was assaulted in Uttarakhand with iron rods till his bones crumbled.
This is not the first time a Kashmiri shawl vendor was attacked in Uttarakhand.
Though the children were not from the Valley, Kashmiris were accused of inciting them.