Police said that they acted following a complaint from the district mineral officer’s office regarding assault of a mining department employee Mohammad Amin Sheikh
The attack on a Uttar Pradesh labourer is the third on non-local workers in Kashmir in a week, following previous deadly assaults in Ganderbal and Shopian.
The PDP has fielded its most promising youth leaders Waheed ur Rehman Para, who is contesting his first assembly election, while the NC has resorted faith on former minister Mohammad Khalil Band, a former PDP leader.