He said that the chief, accompanied by the Northern Army Commander Lt Gen DS Hooda and the Chinar Corps Commander Lt Gen Satish Dua, visited LC formations and units in North and South Kashmir. At least 76 people have been killed and over 11,000 injured in the worst unrest in the valley after 2010 violence.
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A statement issued by the Zonal Police Headquarters Kashmir yesterday said the situation remained by and large under control across the Valley.
September 11: Union Home Ministers Rajnath Singh on Sunday chaired a high-level meeting at his residence at 17 Akbar Road on the present situation in Jammu and Kashmir.
“The local civil administration will have to ask (for) the army there like it happened in Haryana, where the (Jat) agitation took place”.
The directive was given during an hour-long meeting the Home Minister had with top security officials, including National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, besides others. Shops, businesses, schools and private and government offices have remained closed since July 9 – a day after Wani’s killing.
Curfew was on Friday reimposed in many parts of Kashmir for maintaining law and order ahead of Friday prayers.
Meanwhile, normal life remained crippled due to restrictions and the shutdown call by separatist groups against the killing of civilians in security forces’ action over the past two months.
The authorities also didn’t allow congregational midday prayers at Srinagar’s Jamia Masjid – the largest mosque in Jammu and Kashmir – for the eighth Friday in a row.
According to officials, there was no curfew anywhere in the valley but restrictions curbing all pedestrian and traffic movement except that of essential services were imposed in Srinagar.
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The separatist leader vowed to carry on with the agitation as the “spirit of the struggle for freedom has been seamlessly passed on to the next generation”.
