A 25-year-old shopkeeper who had been injured by stone pelters in Srinagar earlier this month succumbed to injuries in the hospital on Wednesday evening, a police spokesman said in Srinagar.
The spokesman said Tariq Ahmad Bhat, a shopkeeper at Gojiwara Chowk in old city 'was severely beaten by a group of stone pelters on December 3 when he defied their dictates of forcing him to shut down his shop'.
"On that day, a group of miscreants appeared in Gojiwara area and resorted to pelting
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