Tag: Kashmir amid Covid-19 lockdown

By Abid Hussain Irfan Ali, who had a travel history to New Delhi, left his home in central Kashmir’s Budgam district in the last week of March to self-report at the local health facility. Ali, a research scholar, had got a phone call to visit the office of the chief medical officer, almost a week after he arrived home amid the coronavirus pandemic that has killed over 205,000 people and affected around 3 million globally. To his astonishment, the 26-year-old was beaten up by Jammu and Kashmir police personnel who were...