Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Mar 30: Police have intensified crackdown against the stone-throwers and in fresh raids they arrested 12 youth from South Kashmir’s Pulwama district on charges of stone pelting.
Sources said that several houses were raided during night hours at Arihal village of Pulwama and a dozen youth who were already identified by the cops during stone-pelting and other law and order related incidents were arrested. Dozens of youth have been arrested in Srinagar and south Kashmir districts by police ahead of Lok Sabha by-elections next month.
Meanwhile, life returned to normal in Kashmir valley after one-day long shutdown against civilian killings during an encounter two days ago at Chadoora area of Budgam district. However several parts of Budgam, Kulgam and Srinagar outskirts observed spontaneous shutdown.
All the shops and commercial units, schools, colleges, universities and petrol pumps reopened normally in Srinagar city and other parts of the Valley. The transport also returned to all routes. However, the shutdown was observed in areas like Bagh-e-Mehtab, Rawalpora, Rangreth, Chadoora and Yaripora in Kulgam district. The day passed off peacefully.
Separatists today once again called for a shutdown in Kashmir on April 2 against the visit of country’s PM Narendra Modi who is scheduled to inaugurate Chenani-Nashri Tunnel in Jammu Division.
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