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| Police, CRPF foil JKLF's protest rally, arrest scores of Front workers | | Normal life affected for 3rd consecutive day | |  Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
srinagar, Feb 11: Police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) today foiled the protest rally of Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front by arresting some of the activists and workers of the Front in the Maisuma area of summer capital.
Reports said that early in the morning dozens of JKLF workers and activists assembled outside their office in the Maisuma area and tried to carry out a protest rally. However, police and CRPF personnel had already reached the area and they arrested the JKLF workers and activists before they tried to carry out the protest rally.
The JKLF had given a call for carrying out the protest rally in connection with the 31st death anniversary of its founder Mohammad Maqbool Bhat. Bhat was hanged inside the premises of Tihar Jail in New Delhi on this day in 1984. The JKLF has been pressing for the return of the mortal remains of Bhat and today's protest rally was also scheduled to be carried out in this respect.
In the meantime, restrictions continued for the third consecutive day in some of the volatile areas of the Srinagar city. Areas coming under the jurisdiction of Safa Kadal, Nowhatta, Maharaj Gunj, Rainawari, Khanyar and Maisuma police stations of Srinagar were put under undeclared curfew by the authorities. Severe restrictions were also put in place in some of the areas of the South and North Kashmir respectively.
Extra deployment of police and CRPF personnel was made in sensitive areas of the Srinagar district and the other districts as well as towns of Kashmir valley. The day passed off peacefully by and large with very few incidents of stone pelting being reported from the summer capital or any other part of the valley.
Clashes between protesters and police erupted in Palhallan village of Pattan area of North Kashmir against the killing of a civilian at the hands of security forces personnel on Monday evening. The protesters resorted to heavy stone-throwing on police and CRPF personnel deployed in the area.
Police resorted to teargas shelling to disperse the protesters. The intermittent clashes continued in the area throughout the day. A CRPF jawan was sustained injuries after a stone hit him on his face. Reports of minor clashes have also been reported from some areas of Central, North and South Kashmir. In the meanwhile, normal life was affected across the Kashmir valley for the third today. The call for strike was given by the various separatist groups against the execution of JKLF founder. Attendance in the government offices across the valley was very thin due to the strike call. Banks, shops, private offices and commercial establishments also remained closed due to the strike call.The impact of the strike call was more in downtown areas of the Srinagar city and the other district headquarters of the valley. The impact was less in the civil line areas and the countryside. Public transport was off the roads in most of the areas while as movement of private transport was also skeletal. |
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