MUZAFFARABAD, April 27: AJK’s Inspector-General Police Shahid Hasan on Wednesday ordered an inquiry into alleged attack on women by a group led by a former councillor.

Eyewitnesses told this correspondent that more than 15 men, wielding batons and iron chains, beat up and injured four women in the border village of Chakothi on Monday.

According to police, there was a dispute between the Khan and Sheikh clans over a small plot of land in the Chakothi bazaar.

A jirga had decreed in favour of the Sheikhs, who built two tin-roofed shops on the disputed land on Sunday.

However, as they were out of the village the following day, the other group came to demolish the shops.

Women belonging to the Sheikh clan resisted their attempts and were severely beaten up, eyewitnesses said.

The local police said that no woman had been injured. However, they arrested a man each from both clans, who were also wounded in the incident. On Tuesday, a third man of the Khan clan was arrested when pressure was mounted on the police.

However, the former councillor, who had allegedly instigated the attack, has not been arrested.

On Wednesday, the IGP directed DIG Range Tahir Qayyum and SSP Muzaffarabad Yasin Qureshi to conduct an inquiry into the matter.