Police fight new menace: Cuddling couples

Kashmir is the troubled state of India where police normally is fighting with the militants. But nowadays they are doing a different job too. Yes, police in Kashmir state of India is keeping a vigil at teenagers canoodling in parks, restaurants and at Internet cafes.

The crackdown aims to curb “immoral activities”, a senior police officer said yesterday, adding that dozens of places had been raided across Srinagar, the main city of the region, and at least 10 couples detained over the last three days.

Restaurant and Internet cafe owners had also been asked to get rid of cabins and cubicles as they were being “misused” by teenagers in the Muslim-majority region, he said. “We received a number of complaints from parents that their children, mostly teenagers, would stray into cyber cafes and restaurants instead of schools and colleges,” Parvez Ahmad said.

A fall in violence has allowed a marginal easing of security restrictions and freer movement of people in Srinagar, leading to youngsters getting bolder in what is a traditional Islamic society, they say.

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