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New Delhi: Two days after Indian paramilitary forces gunned down four people in Hyderpora encounter in Srinagar, hashtag #KashmiriLivesMatter was one of the trending topics on micro-blogging site Twitter as users slammed the Indian government and security forces for allegedly killing innocent people of Jammu and Kashmir.

The hashtag was widely being used by activists from across the country after a video of a daughter expressing her ordeal of the incident and explaining how her father was killed, claiming that her father had no links with the militant groups as claimed by the forces.

In a 1:20-minute video that was first shared by Kashmir-based Photojournalist Basit Zargar wherein the daughter of Althaf Bhat who was killed in the gunfight was seen breaking down while explaining what happened during the incident.

“They made him go up three times and then shot him on the third time. They killed eyewitnesses too. How can you kill innocent eyewitnesses? When I told them – Uncle, why are you doing this? How do you know my father is this? He (a member of security forces) started laughing. What can I tell them? They were laughing shamelessly,” she is heard saying in the video.

“My brother is in 2nd grade. He is a little kid. What can we tell him? He loves our father. I love our father” she is further seen as saying before breaking down completely.

The action by the security forces is widely being criticized with several users claiming that there was no guarantee for lives in Kashmir. At the time of posting of this report, the hashtag along with a similar hashtag #KashmirBleeds was one of the top trending topics on Twitter.

Here are some of the tweets users posted on the micro-blogging site using the two hashtags.

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Pathanamthitta(Kerala) (PTI): A Kerala court on Wednesday granted bail to expelled Congress MLA Rahul Mamkootathil in the third sexual assault case against him, in which he was arrested earlier this month.

The bail was granted by the Pathanamthitta District Sessions Court, which was considering an appeal filed by the MLA against a judicial magistrate's court that had denied him relief, stating that the allegations against him were serious and that he had "similar antecedents".

The third sexual assault case was registered against the Palakkad MLA under Sections 376 (rape) and 506(1) (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), following a complaint lodged by a woman from Kottayam district on 8 January. He was arrested in the case on January 11 in Palakkad.

The Kerala High Court and a sessions court in Thiruvananthapuram had earlier protected the MLA from arrest in the first two sexual assault cases, which were registered based on complaints from two different women.

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