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| Curfew, shutdown cripples normal life in Kashmir | | Man hit by CRPF vehicle succumbs | | Mustansir
srinagar, Mar 14: Life in the Kashmir valley came to a grinding halt today in wake of the curfew imposed by the authorities. Initially authorities had announced that curfew would be imposed in Srinagar city. However, it has been imposed across the Valley. Pertinently tension had gripped Valley after a paramilitary CRPF men shot dead a man at Zoonimar Saidpora on Wednesday when according to police the CRPF vehicles carrying Jawans were rushing towards SKIMS Soura to donate blood to CRPF persons who were injured in fidayeen attack in Bemina earlier in the day.
The city is under a thick blanket of security and no movement is allowed. With separatists having called for a strike today, authorities have put restrictions across Kashmir valley. "We were apprehending trouble so the restrictions have been put as precautionary measure. Situation is under control," a senior police officer told Early Time Plus.
Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, Abdul Gani Mir said a round-the-clock curfew has been imposed in the city of Srinagar while there were similar restrictions in other towns and villages in the Kashmir valley.
"It is an indefinite curfew," Mir told in Srinagar where major roads were blocked with steel barricades and coils of razor wire.
Curfew was extended in the morning to Anantnag, Shopian, Pulwama and Kulgam district headquarters in South Kashmir while it was clamped in Baramulla, Sopore and other towns in North Kashmir in the evening on Wednesday.
Schools and Government offices were closed while the University of Kashmir postponed all examinations which had been scheduled for Thursday and Friday. It merits a mention here that Wednesday's deadly attack by militants in Srinagar for nearly five years, has further heightened tensions in Kashmir following the execution of Parliament attack convict, Mohammad Afzal Guru on February 9 in Tihar Jail. A 24-year-old man was shot dead on Wednesday evening in Srinagar, with the paramilitary police saying that they responded after one of their vehicles had come under attack from stone pelters.
Meanwhile, a 70-year-old local man died after he was allegedly run over by a CRPF vehicle today morning. Police have registered a case against the driver. Police sources said that Ama Chopan of Charar-e-Sharief suffered critical injuries after he was hit allegedly by a fast moving CRPF vehicle near Solina last evening. The injured was rushed to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries this morning. A police official said that FIR in this connection stands registered in Shergarhi Police Station. |
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