Roads have been blocked by using barricades and concertina wires.
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Meanwhile, people have been facing an acute shortage of essential commodities, including medicines, due to the curfew.
People complained that their stocks of groceries and other food items have dried up.
However, on Sunday, people defied curfew at many places and staged pro-freedom protests and engaged forces in pitched battles. At Hatmulla, protesters attacked the Hatmulla Police Post.
Three civilians were injured when Army opened fire on protesters at Saderkote village in Bandipore on Sunday.
All recruitment interviews scheduled for the next four days have been cancelled by the state public service commission (PSC).
Amid Kashmir unrest, Authorities in Indian-controlled Kashmir seized newspapers and shut down cable television on Saturday, aiming to quell a flare up of tensions in the region which has seen violent protests over the killing of a separatist commander by security forces.
On the other hand, APHC leaders Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik appealed to the people to remain steadfast with patience, unity and discipline and do not pay any heed to rumours aimed at harming the ongoing resistance movement.
For a third day, newspapers in Indian-held Kashmir have not hit the stands following a ban by the pro-India government in the region.
Several major newspaper offices have been raided by police in Indian-controlled Kashmir as part of an information blackout following a week of unrest in the disputed state. More than 8 newspapers are printed from this printing press.
The police team later reached the Press Enclave and seized the vehicle carrying all the copies of Rising Kashmir and detained Rising Kashmir driver, Irshad Khan. They were harassed and intimidated at police station.
Mobile Internet and train services continue to remain suspended across the valley for the past 10 days now.
“Some policemen, CRPF personnel and civilians received injuries in these incidents”, said a police spokesman.
“They did not even spare the wasted copies of the newspaper”, he said. They also detained scores of printing press workers.
A story on GK website reads, “Cops misbehaved with the employees present there and snatched their cell phones”. “Some newspapers were also sensationalizing the violence”.
Calling it an “attack” on the freedom of the press, Indian Journalists Union (IJU) has protested the alleged “clampdown” on the media in Kashmir Valley and demanded that it be allowed to function unhindered.
Editor of Srinagar Times, an Urdu daily published from Srinagar, said, “This is undemocratic”.
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Amitabh Mattoo, advisor to the state Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, told media that the decision to ban publication of newspapers was not taken at the instance of the Chief Minister.
