Baramulla, Feb 10: Life returned to normal on Saturday after remaining paralysed for a day due to
restrictions, strike and clashes between demonstrators and security forces in
apple township of Sopore, in this north Kashmir district.
Authorities on Friday had imposed restrictions in Sopore to
prevent any assembly and law and order problem on the fifth death anniversary
of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, who was hanged and later buried in
Delhi’s Tihar jail on February 9, 2013.
All roads leading to Sopore, home town of Guru, which had been closed for any traffic and pedestrian movement by security forces early Friday morning, are open today.
Officials said Restriction under Section 144 CrPC, imposed in some parts of Sopore since Friday morning as a precautionary measure to maintain law and order, have been lifted.
Shops and business establishments reopened and traffic was plying normally on all routes.
The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL), comprising Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Moulvi Omar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik, has called for a general strike and peaceful protests on Friday.
Mr Geelani and the Mirwaiz remained under house arrest while Malik has been lodged in central jail, Srinagar.
A number of separatists have also been taken into preventive custody in north Kashmir during the past few days.
Defying restrictions, people, mostly youths, clashed with security forces in the town after Friday prayers. Security forces had to burst teargas shells to disperse the demonstrators. UNI
All roads leading to Sopore, home town of Guru, which had been closed for any traffic and pedestrian movement by security forces early Friday morning, are open today.
Officials said Restriction under Section 144 CrPC, imposed in some parts of Sopore since Friday morning as a precautionary measure to maintain law and order, have been lifted.
Shops and business establishments reopened and traffic was plying normally on all routes.
The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL), comprising Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Moulvi Omar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik, has called for a general strike and peaceful protests on Friday.
Mr Geelani and the Mirwaiz remained under house arrest while Malik has been lodged in central jail, Srinagar.
A number of separatists have also been taken into preventive custody in north Kashmir during the past few days.
Defying restrictions, people, mostly youths, clashed with security forces in the town after Friday prayers. Security forces had to burst teargas shells to disperse the demonstrators. UNI
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