Srinagar: Joint Hurriyat Leadership Called For Shutdown Today Against Braid Chopping Incidents In J&K

The police also said that the lady police will also be kept available to examine the victims. "In rest of the cases, we have not been provided the support by the either the victim or the family members. We have decided that the lady police officer will be available till 11 o'clock for these victims to be examined," he said. The incidents of braid-chopping have increased in Jammu and Kashmir over the past few days and people have started resorting to vigilante action to prevent such attacks. (Image: ANI) (With inputs from ANI)

Bhat further revealed that a girl in the Gulbarg colony admitted that she had cut her hair herself. "The accused said that she was mistreated in the family; the mother of the accused used different words to tease her and she was very upset with this. The girl got mentally disturbed and she thought that the braid or hair cutting was happening and it was the per tune time to cut her hair and she did it," he said. (Image: ANI)