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An irate mob, many of them burqa-clad women, attacked a local hotel at Magharmal Bagh in capital Srinagar and broke away glass panes and windows and ravaged furniture and other things in the hotel.

They also set one fire a maruti car parked outside the hotel and broke the windscreen and window glasses of two other parked cars.
 
Local residents, who also included among the attackers, alleged that the hotel was running flesh trade.

They said that some men and women allegedly involved in immoral activities were spotted in the hotel, which provoked the action.

They accused police of facilitating the flesh trade by turning their eyes the other way. The agitators shouted slogans against the police, and pelted stones on them.

Police in return resorted to cane charge and tear smoke shelling. Half a dozen persons were alleged to have got injured in the action.
 
Kashmir had been news for an infamous sex scandal in 2006, in which some politicians, officials of police and security forces and businessmen were allegedly involved.

The CBI, which was investigating the scandal, booked 14 persons including two former ministers, and produced charge-sheet against them in the court.
 
Dakhtaran-e-millat, a women's reformist group, launched a campaign against immorality and obscenity in Kashmir society. Its chief Asiya Andrabi was jailed for three months in 2004 for "taking law into her own hands", when she along with her women activists raided hotels and restaurants in Srinagar as a part of her campaign.