Dehradun police on Thursday (January 29, 2026) arrested a 50-year-old shopkeeper for allegedly assaulting a 17-year-old Kashmiri shawl-seller. According to an FIR on the complaint of the victim’s brother, the duo had approached the shopkeeper to buy snacks. By then, my brothers had decided to buy snacks from some other shop and had picked up their bags of shawls. Since they were speaking in Kashmiri, the shopkeeper became angry and started abusing them,” the complainant told The Hindu. When the arguments over the usage of Kashmiri language escalated, the accused picked up a bat and thrashed the youths, the complainant added.