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| Life returns to normal in Valley after siege | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, Dec 1: life returned to normal in most parts of the valley Monday after informal curfew was imposed in the valley ahead of polls in Kupwara district of North Kashmir.
Coordination Committee, an amalgam of both factions of Hurriyat conference, pro-freedom Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, traders and social organizations had urged people to march towards Kupwara where voting for the five constituencies in the third of the seven phase elections was held Sunday.
Shops and other business establishments reopened in Srinagar and other major towns of the valley while traffic was plying normally on all routes.
Reports said barricades which were erected on roads in the city and major towns of the Valley were removed this morning.
Concentration of police and paramilitary troops on the roads was also reduced.
A report from Nowkadal area in the downtown of the city where a youth was fired upon by Paramilitary Central Reserve said that the area was normal while shops and schools in the area were open. Traffic was also plying as usual, PBI, reported.
CRPF opened fire on anti-election protesters on Sunday evening in the area in which a youth Muhammad Ashraf son of Abdul Ahad Bhat was injured. He sustained bullet injury in his shoulder and has been hospitalized.
Nowshera, Soura where personal security guards of Usman Majid fired few rounds in air after his cavalcade was stoned, was also normal.
Usman was returning after visiting State secretary of CPI (M) Muhammad Yousuf Targami at SKIMS Soura. Targami was injured in an accident at Awantipora on Srinagar-Jammu National Highway and is still admitted in the prestigious hospital.
No one was injured in the police action and mob retaliation in the area, the officials said. |
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