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| 6 dead, over 100 injured in Kashmir | | Govt acts tough, separatists arrested; strict curfew | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Aug 25
The administration of Governor NN Vohra today struck in Kashmir with its writ thwarting a separatist rally at the Summer Capital City’s central square of Lal Chowk as a grand curfew was imposed across entire Kashmir Valley and all prominent separatist leaders taken into custody.
The Central Government said the curfew in the Kashmir valley was imposed to send a clear message to the separatists that "enough is enough" and such kind of processions would not be allowed.
Reports said that six persons were killed and over 100 others injured on Monday when security forces opened fire to quell violent protestors who defied curfew in the Kashmir valley.
Showkat Ahmad Khanday was killed and another youth injured in firing by security personnel on stone-pelting protestors at Narbal, official sources said.
Another youth, Basit Bashir, was killed in clashes between protestors and security forces in Pulwama district town, they said, adding four other persons were admitted with bullet injuries to the district hospital.
At Chootipora village in Handwara area of Kupwara district, an 18-year-old girl identified as Fehmeeda was killed when security personnel opened fire, the sources said adding the incident was being investigated.
Four persons have been killed and 110 injured since Sunday when curfew was clamped in all 10 districts of the Valley to thwart a march by separatists. On Sunday, one person was killed in firing at Dalgate area of the city. Over 100 people were injured in clashes elsewhere in the valley on Monday, the sources said.
At least 30 persons were injured when security forces opened fire to disperse violent protestors at Choora village on Srinagar-Baramulla national Highway after a baton charge and tear gas shelling proved ineffective.
As many as 24 persons including four security force personnel were injured in firing clashes between at Hajan in Bandipora district.
Meanwhile, a routine medical check up was conducted on all separatist leaders including Geelani and Malik, who are both suffering from various ailments.
Asked to comment on a report by a Pakistani private TV news channel that Geelani had taken ill after his arrest, the spokesman said "there is no truth in the report and all the arrested separatists are hale and hearty".
The spokesman said the check up was carried out to provide necessary medicare to the separatist leaders.
Briefing on Kashmir situation, the Union Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta told a press conference in New Delhi, "enough is enough. Things can't go like this way. There was no logic in their (separatist) programme today," Gupta said.
Asked as to why these kind of processions were allowed earlier, Gupta, while making it clear that the matter was a state subject, said, "one becomes wiser by hindsight."
While speaking on the day's development in the state, he said, "militants had also fired at the security forces during the protests."
"Empty AK-47 cartridge was recovered after a crowd was dispersed in Beerwah (Budgam district)," he said adding that it implied that militants were in the crowd.
He tried to draw a parallel with the killing of Sheikh Aziz, a Hurriyat leader, during a procession fortnight ago.
However, the Home Secretary said no need arose for conducting a postmortem on his body as the crowd carried the body and kept it in Jama Masjid before being buried in Pampore on August 12.
"Investigations are on in this case," he said, four days after National Security Advisor M K Narayanan had told the Union Cabinet that Aziz was killed neither by a police nor an army bullet. |
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