Srinagar: Police on Thursday said that it will provide ‘counseling and de-addiction support’ to a south Kashmir ‘teen’ who was arrested yesterday on the charges of stone-throwing.
Faisal Ahmed Mir, alias Chota Geelani, who is a resident of Bonabazar Shopian, was arrested from Zavoora village. “Faisal Mir is involved in a number of cases of stone pelting in Shopian and various other violent activities. The said individual is reported to have developed habit of drug addiction,” a police spokesman said in a statement.
The decision of ‘counseling and de-addiction support’ to the arrested youth was taken on the directions of Inspector General of Police, Kashmir Range, Abdul Gani Mir ‘free of cost so that he can come so out of the menace’, the spokesman added. (GNS)