On the front porch of her house at Panzipra in Kashmir’s Sopore, Kulsooma sat alone, sobbing. Her brother, Altaf Ahmed Sheikh, was called to the local police station on April 14, and on April 24, he was booked under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA) and sent to jail in the Bhaderwah district of Jammu. Theirs is one of six such families in Sopore grappling with the aftermath of six young men facing police action. All are households with limited means, and the families are unsure of the next steps to meet their children or find a lawyer. On April 13, protests broke out in Sopore town after students of a government school alleged harassment of a girl by an Urdu teacher there. Sloganeering and stone pelting incidents were recorded despite the police’s near immediate filing of an FIR and booking the teacher. Though the protest is believed to have begun within the school compound, it spread to the main market.…