Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Feb 11: A shutdown was observed in Kashmir valley on the 32nd hanging anniversary of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) co-founder Mohammad Maqbool Bhat while restrictions were clamped in parts of summer capital to maintain law and order.
Shops and commercial establishments were closed in city while the public transport also remained off the roads. The District Administration in order to maintain law and order imposed restrictions in the areas falling under six police stations of the city.
The restrictions were imposed in Maharaj Gunj, Safa Kadal, Nowhatta, Khanyar, Rainawari and Maisuma police station areas of the city. Hundreds of police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were deployed in these areas to enforce the restrictions. The security forces had laid barbed wires and erected mobile bunkers on various junctions and bridges in city parts.
The situation, however, remained peaceful across the Kashmir valley and no incident of violence was reported from any part of the region. The people preferred to stay indoors due to snow and rainfall.
The shutdown was observed in all other towns and villages of the Valley including Anantnag, Baramulla, Pulwama, Kupwara and Ganderbal. A peaceful protest rally was organized by JKLF at Trehgam, the native village of Bhat, in North Kashmir’s Kupwara district.
The protesters sought the return of mortal remains of Bhat as well as Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, both of whom were executed and buried in Delhi’s Tihar jail after a gap of 29 years.
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