Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 28: Protest erupted in Kathua district after vehicles carrying patients toward Jammu and Kathua were stopped by police in the wake of an encounter between security forces and militants today.
About 200 people protested against police after a car carrying a pregnant lady and vehicles with another patients were intercepted by them on Jammu-Pathankot National Highway.
Authorities rushed to the place and pacified protesters who were later allowed to take patients to hospital.
Police said they had strict instructions to deny anybody to move from either sides on the highway.