Jammu, Dec 18: A man climbed a telecom tower on Wednesday to protest after he was not allotted a shop in the Jagti Kashmiri Pandit migrant mini township on the city outskirts, officials said.
The man, who has been selling cosmetics and decorative items from his car in the camp for years, was left out of the recent shop allotment process. In protest, he scaled the tower at the Jagti Mini Township verification centre.
Police rushed to the spot and safely brought him down after assuring that his grievance would be reviewed. The incident occurred while the deputy commissioner of the relief department was verifying allotment documents of other beneficiaries.
The deputy commissioner assured that the shop allotment process would continue smoothly and that the man’s case would be duly considered.
