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| Jammu refuses to forget Kuldip’s sacrifice | | Cops fight pitched battles, scores injured, 30 detained | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | July 25
On second day of the round two of Shri Amarnath Shrine land agitation, Jammu City and its adjoining areas witnessed worst protests and demonstrations as scores of people were injured in pitched battles with the Police while more than 30 youth have been taken into custody.
Huge loss to the public property, including a Police vehicle, has been reported from the old city areas even as entire town and many peripheral areas witnessed a complete shut down in solidarity with the supreme sacrifice offered by Kuldip Kumar Varma.
One of the busiest locations of the old city –the Parade Ground area –where Kuldip had offered his life on Wednesday was the fountainhead of main protests and demonstrations today. Even though the administration had lifted the curfew, people voluntarily stayed indoors.
However, in the peripheral areas of Jammu, barring stray incidents of stone pelting, street demonstrations second day of the Jammu bandh relatively passed off peacefully as no major incident of violence was reported after the district administration lifted the curfew restrictions on Friday morning.
The entire Jammu city observed complete shut down and transport buses remained off the roads .Private vehicles were seen on the roads but there number was quite less. In the morning activists of sangarsh samiti enforced bandh in certain pockets as shopkeepers wanted to open the shops.
Curfew was imposed across Jammu and several other adjoining areas of Bisnah,RSPura and Arnia on Thursday before the cremation ceremony of the Shri Amarnath sangarsh activist who earlier sacrificed his life for the cause of Amarnath land transfer on wednesday.
The angry protesters across Jammu on friday formed small groups and torched effigies of the National conference chief Omar Abdullah, and senior polcie officers. Around noon, mob torched one of the police vehilces outside Police control room and pelted stones.Similar ding dong battles continued till alte evening in the walled city area.Leaders of teh sangarsh samiti also demanded renaming of parade ground chowk as shaheed Kuldeep Dogra road. Police booked over three dozen activists of Amarnath Snagarsh samiti for rioting.
Meanwhile state BJP leaders and convener of the Shri Amarnath sangarsh samiti Leela Karan Sharma announced that from Saturday the protesters would intensify their agitation.
The state government also announced an ex-gratia payment of Rs 2 lakh for Kuldeep Kumar Verma. |
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