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Police fired in air and lobbed tear gas shells after a mob attacked the ancestral house of Jammu and Kashmir Education Minister Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed in Anantnag district today.
“A mob resorted to heavy stone pelting on the house of Sayeed at Damhal-Khushipora in Kokernag area”,55 kms from here,a police spokesman said,adding police fired tear smoke shells to disperse the attackers which left one unidentified person injured.
The Minister,who had gone to his native place to celebrate Eid and was present in the house along with his family,escaped unhurt.
“A police party has evacuated the minister to safety and no one from his family was hurt in the incident,” official sources said.
Sources said police also fired several rounds in air to control the situation as the protesters tried to storm the house of the Congress leader.
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