Kashmiri doctor arrested in UP over concocted charge
Saharanpur: A doctor from Islamabad district of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, working at a private hospital in Saharanpur, UP, India, was arrested over putting up posters in support of support freedom of Kashmir in Srinagar.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Additional Superintendent of Police (Saharanpur) Vyom Bindal said the detainee, Adil Ahmed, was identified through CCTV footage showing him placing the posters at multiple locations in Srinagar. The police coordinated with Saharanpur authorities and the Special Operations Group to take him into custody from the hospital on Ambala Road.
Ahmed was produced before a court in Saharanpur, which granted transit remand to the police in Srinagar. He has been brought back to IIOJK for further investigation. Police said the local intelligence unit in Saharanpur has been alerted to verify the backgrounds of other Kashmiri medical staff employed in private hospitals.
Observers say the arrest of Adil Ahmed in UP and two others in Islamabad district is part of a wider crackdown by Indian authorities targeting Kashmiri professionals, particularly doctors, who have pursued medical education in Pakistan. Indian agencies allege that such individuals are “indoctrinated with pro-freedom sentiments” and may influence others in the community, reflecting a deliberate policy to monitor and suppress dissenting voices within Kashmir’s educated youth.
Critics contend that this approach unfairly stigmatizes an entire segment of the medical community while diverting attention from systemic grievances and the ongoing political crisis in the territory.
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