Earlier, MLA Bandipora Usman Abdul Majid had claimed that one person was killed and three others were injured in the clash. Over 3100 people, including a large number of security forces have been injured in the violence in little more than a week.
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Landline telephone connections in three districts were snapped on Saturday, and inter-exchange calls for all landline connections in the Valley ceased on Sunday.
The centre has rushed another 20 companies of paramilitary forces to assist the state government in maintaining law and order in the trouble-torn Valley.
He said by placing whole Kashmir under strict curfew from last many days and now banning every mean of communication India and its stooges have actually beaten all previous records of oppression, suppression and tyrannical behaviors’.
About 60 battalions (about 1,000 in personnel each) are already stationed in the state as part of counter-insurgency grid.
Witnesses said that forces fired pellets on protesters at Rainawari in old city. The deployment of troops has been increased across the valley, Kashmir Media Service reported.
Customers are unable to make calls to any phone outside their home district.
Local newspapers in curfew-bound Kashmir failed to hit the stands on Monday for the third consecutive day after the government’s alleged “clampdown” on the media in the aftermath of widespread protests in the Valley.
“The government’s recent steps to suppress nonviolent opposition only undermine Bahrain’s cohesion and security, as well as the region’s stability”.
“We don’t know if it was really a mob attack”.
Authorities have imposed a curfew in Muslim-majority Kashmir for 11 days, blocked mobile phones and briefly ordered curbs on newspapers to stop people from gathering and to control the worst outbreak of violence there in six years.
Other newspaper publishers said on their web editions that employees working for their printing presses were also arrested.
Addressing a meeting of senior bureaucrats in summer capital Srinagar on Monday, Mehbooba Mufti stressed on the importance of opening educational institutions as soon as possible to protect the future of students.
Separatist leaders have extended their strike call until Thursday afternoon followed by a shutdown and protests on Friday.
In a bid to show solidarity with the Kashmiri people and rededicate all energies and resources to continue the liberation movement, Kashmir’s Accession to Pakistan Day will be observed on Tuesday (July 19, 2016). Digital edition of the newspapers were available on their websites but due to the mobile net blockade the traffic was very less.
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Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Sitaram Yechury also blamed the government for using excessive force.
