Srinagar, Feb. 20 -- Jammu & Kashmir People's Conference (PC) president and Handwara MLA Sajad Lone on Thursday raised in J&K assembly the issue of police verification policy in the Union Territory saying if one person in a family commits a mistake, then hundreds of youth associated with that family are denied police clearance, a party spokesperson said.

Lone described police verification as having "degenerated into a form of collective punishment". "If one person in your family has committed a mistake, then hundreds of youth associated with that family are denied police clearance," he said.

Citing a case from Baramulla district, Lone informed the House about a young man who had secured a handsome job package in Hyderabad but was denied...