Srinagar: Kashmir shuts on Sunday on Joint Resistance Leadership’s strike call amid curfew like restrictions continued for the second successive day on Sunday in the downtown, Shehar-e-Khas (SeK) and areas under two police stations in the civil line and old city.
Officials said District Magistrate (DM) Srinagar had imposed restrictions under Section 144 CrPC on Saturday morning in the areas under the jurisdiction of police Parimpora, Khanyar, Nowhatta, Safakadal, M R Gunj and Rainawari in the downtown and SeK in Srinagar.
The restrictions were imposed as a preventive measure to maintain law and order in view of the strike called by the separatists.
The restrictions were first imposed yesterday in the wake of killing of a militant in a shootout with police in the outskirts of the city on Friday.
Three militants travelling in a car opened fire on a police team at the Zakura crossing on Srinagar-Ganderbal road, killing sub-inspector Imran Tak and injuring a special police officer (SPO) on Friday evening.
The police team managed to intercept the car and apprehended one militant, but two others fled from the scene.
Later, police came to know that Mugees Ahmad Mir, one of the two militants who had managed to escape, was brought home dead.
Mir, a resident of Parimpora in the city, was brought home dead last evening after he was injured in the shoot-out.
The slain militant was an associate of Zakir Musa, who left the Hizbul Mujahideen to float an IS affiliate in Kashmir.
Mir’s killing was followed by the killing of six LeT militants in Hajin area of north Kashmir s Bandipora district in an encounter yesterday.
Separatists leaders called for a shutdown today against these killings.
Most of the shops, fuel stations and other business establishments were shut in Srinagar due to the strike, the police official said.
The official said public transport was sparse, but private cars, cabs and auto-rickshaws were seen plying in many areas of the city.
Similar reports were received from other district headquarters of the valley, he said.
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