The region has remained locked down since, as separatists opposed to Indian rule called for strikes and protests and authorities responded by suspending most mobile networks and internet and clamped rolling curfews in large parts of the territory including Srinagar.
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Curfew was extended to more areas of Indian-administered Kashmir Valley as a precautionary measure even as body of a youth with pellet injuries was on Wednesday found outside a hospital, triggering protests. Some of the demonstrations passed off peacefully.
“He was reportedly beaten before they put a pellet gun at his stomach and fired”, said his brother Zahoor Ahmed.
Around 13,000-strong rallies were organised at Arwani in Kulgam district and Quil in Pulwama district.
“The land of Buddha, Ashoka and Gandhi who propagated Ahinsa and whose people pride themselves of this legacy, is carrying out massacre of innocents so unapologetically”, said Mirwaiz.
He said the government official, identified as Baburam, was stopped by a mob when he was on his way to Ramban in Jammu division and asked to alight from the vehicle.
The protesters burned the auto, the officer said, adding the policeman and the administrator took refuge in a nearby paramilitary camp. Police officials said that four miscreants were arrested. During these law and order situations 12 persons, -40 police and security force personnel were injured. Youth at Vehail Shopian reportedly clashed with police.
Curfew was also imposed in Khanpora area of Baramulla district, Awanitpora and Pampore in Pulwama district while Anantnag town in south Kashmir also continued to remain under curfew.
“In its continuous drive against the hooligans and miscreants 349 persons have been arrested in the valley”.
Later, in a statement, Kashmir police said that 349 people have been arrested in its drive against “hooligans and miscreants”, while 122 others have been detained under prohibitory provisions of law.
Thousands of people defying curfew came out on the roads in the old-city areas of Srinagar, after a young guard of an ATM was found dead under mysterious circumstances near the SMHS hospital here. Finally the medical opinion was that pellets have been pumped into Shah’s body from a shot gun put on his body.
“My brother was killed in cold blood”.
Shah’s family members said that he had been killed when he was as usual returning to home from his ATM on a scooty.
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Kashmiri Muslim women shout anti Indian slogans during in a protest march organized by women separatist group Dukhtaran-e-milat, or Daughters of the Nation, shortly after a day long curfew in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016. “You should confirm with the police station where they have launched an FIR”, he said.
