Man held for misbehaving with school girls

Srinagar: A man was today arrested for allegedly misbehaving with girl students of a higher secondary school in north Kashmir's Baramulla district, police said.

Adnan Nazir, a resident of Kreeri in Pattan area of the district, was arrested after some girl students of Higher Secondary School Kreeri and their parents protested against him and alleged that he had misbehaved with some girl students last evening, a police spokesman said here.

A case has been registered against him and police is investigating the issue, he added. The spokesman said some persons in the mob pelted stones on police which then used "mild force" to disperse the mob. The situation is normal now, he said.