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Both were interrogated and will be produced in court Tuesday. “Sayeed did not speak to me or my family members.“If the UP government can be held responsible for the Dadri incident, then the BJP is equally responsible for the Udhampur incident along with its ally PDP,” Mr Rashid said. We were asked to contact his PRO Altaf Sahab. This climate of intolerance & violence is very worrying,” Mr Abdullah tweeted. Zahid’s brother Mohammad Younus, who was also present at the press conference along with Mr Ashraf and Mr Rashid, said his family was being threatened by Orange chamois lamb faux fur fabric the police and the state administration. Mr Rashid had to take refuge inside Press Club till additional forces came to his rescue.Mr Rashid was later taken out of the Press Club by police personnel.

One of the victims, 19-year-old Zahid, died at Delhi’s Safdurjung Hospital on Sunday morning.The Delhi police booked and arrested the two men who allegedly carried out the attack under Sections 355 (assault or criminal force with intent to dishonour person) and 341 (wrongful restraint).Monday’s incident came soon after Mr Rashid had made comments at the press conference on his “beef party” at the MLAs’ hostel in Srinagar.Some TV journalists as well as some policemen also got ink and paint on their faces and clothes as they tried to protect the MLA from the mob, PTI reports said. He sat on dharna outside Jammu and Kashmir House in Chanakyapuri, along with a few supporters, saying he should be allowed to go to the Prime Minister’s residence at Race Course Road.As he finished the press conference, Engineer Rashid was stopped at the Press Club gate by some TV journalists for one-to-one interviews when some activists shouting slogans like “Gau mata ka apman, nahi sahega Hindustan” (India will not tolerate any disrespect to the cow) pounced on him and smeared him with black paint, mobil oil and blue ink. Is this the democracy that India boasts about It’s the worst,” Mohammed Ashraf, a relative of Zahid, said after his face was also blackened. “Mufti Sayeed will have to pay for this.Terming the ink attack on the MLA and the ransacking of the BCCI’s headquarters as “despicable”, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said Monday that the climate of intolerance and hate in the country was a matter of “deep concern”.

A senior police officer said the two men were members of the right-wing Hindu Sena and were identified as Deepak Sharma and Devender Upadhyaya.In another incident of right-wing hooliganism reflecting the rising wave of intolerance that has put the Narendra Modi government under increasing pressure, a press conference by Independent MLA from J&K Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as “Engineer Rashid”, became a nightmare for him in New Delhi Monday as some persons, allegedly from the right-wing Hindu Sena, blackened his face with paint, ink and mobil oil protesting against his hosting a “beef party” in Srinagar earlier this month.“They are mentally sick. I want the whole world to see this is how these people are trying to muzzle the voice of Kashmiris,” Mr Rashid, who was earlier beaten by BJP MLAs in the J&K Assembly for hosting the “beef party”, said after the attack. “Either there will be a climate of intolerance and hate or one marked by pluralism and composite culture, there can be no in-between,” he said.

The Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha said that growing acts of intolerance and “hate-mongering” would weaken the social fabric and enfeeble the bonds of amity and brotherhood in society. “I do not eat beef, mutton, or chicken, but that was a form of protest to tell the authorities that do not interfere in anyone’s religion,” Mr Rashid was quoted by PTI as telling reporters when he was asked about violating people’s sentiments. He also demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi apologise for the Udhampur incident.“Attack on Engg.Within minutes of the incident, widespread condemnation poured in from the state, with J&K chief minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed saying the “spate in unpleasant incidents” was “most disturbing”, while former CM Omar Abdullah voiced concern, saying “this climate of intolerance and violence is very worrying”. Deepak Sharma stays in Delhi, and Devender Upadhyaya is a resident of Kaushambi in Ghaziabad. The relatives of the two, Zahid and Showkat, who were sleeping in the truck when it was attacked by a mob with petrol bombs, alleged that the Mufti government was “threatening, abusing and warning” their family members from speaking to the media. Rashid is unacceptable & condemned in the strongest possible terms.Rashid had called the media to the Press Club of India for a briefing on the attack on two truck drivers by a mob at Udhampur in Jammu on October 9. Is this how they care for fellow Kashmiris ” he asked.