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| Protest against Govt's plan to settle migrant KPs turns violent in Sgr | | Malik, other JKLF activists arrested | |  Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Apr 10: Protests broke out in some of the areas of the summer capital after the police and security forces did not allow the Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) activists to carry out a march against the central government's plan of settling the migrant Kashmiri Pandits in satellite townships.
Eye-witnesses told Early Times that soon after the culmination of Friday prayers scores of JKLF activists and some other people assembled near the Front office in Maisuma. As part of the JKLF's programme to carry out a protest march against the central government's plan to settle Kashmiri Pandits, the protesters tried to march towards the city centre.
As soon as the protesters led by JKLF Chairman, Mohammad Yasin Malik reached near the Akhara building at Budshah Chowk, they were stopped by the police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel. The police and CRPF personnel swooped on the protesters and arrested Malik along with some of his supporters. Some of the Mahant of the local temples were also part of the group of people carrying out the protests.
As soon as the protesters saw Malik being arrested they started pelting stones on police and CRPF personnel. The news of JKLF Chairman's arrest spread like a wild fire and many more youth joined the protest demonstrations. The shopkeepers downed their shutters and fled to safer places since the situation turned violent.
The ding dong battle between the two sides that started from the Budshah Chowk spread to other places like Maisuma, Madina Chowk, Red Cross Road and Gaw Kadal. Agitated youth pelted stones on police and CRPF personnel and this was replied with lobbing of smoke shells by the police and CRPF personnel. Efforts to chase the protesters failed and the protests carried out late in the evening.
More than 20 persons including some police and CRPF personnel got injured during the clashes. Abid Bhat, a press photographer also sustained injuries during the melee. Police and CRPF personnel lobbed dozens of smoke shells on the protesters and the situation was very tense in the areas by the time this report was filed. Protests have also been reported from some of the localities in the downtown Srinagar and some areas in North Kashmir's Baramulla district.
A police spokesman in a situation bulletin said that situation remained normal across the valley. The spokesman said that some incidents of stone pelting were reported from Maisuma, Kawdara in Srinagar and Palhallan in Baramulla. He said that eight policemen received injuries during the clashes between the protesters and police as well as CRPF personnel. |
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