India, Dec. 25 -- Three people, seen in a widely-circulated video harassing and assaulting a Kashmiri shawl seller in Udham Singh Nagar district's Kashipur area have been taken into custody, the district police said in a statement on Thursday evening.

Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Udham Singh Nagar, Manikant Mishra said the video surfaced on Instagram on December 24 and showed some youths from the Kashipur area misbehaving, assaulting and threatening Bilal, a shawl seller from Jammu and Kashmir who has been residing in Uttarakhand for nine years.

Police said its investigation revealed that the incident occurred on December 22.

Mishra added that the police acted swiftly after the video came to its notice and registered a FIR in...