An irate mob, protesting the killing of Javid Ahmad Malla, hit the streets in Baramulla town this morning and indulged in stone pelting on police and paramilitary personnel at nearly half a dozen places.
At least five persons were injured as people took to the streets today at several places across Kashmir valley and clashed with security personnel while the separatist-sponsored strike against the killing of a youth paralysed life for the second successive day.
Prohibitory orders remained strictly in force in the old city for the second day to avert untoward incidents and maintain law and order.
An irate mob, protesting the killing of Javid Ahmad Malla, hit the streets in Baramulla town, 55 km from here this morning and indulged in stone pelting on police and paramilitary personnel at nearly half a dozen places including local police station, trigerring clashes, official sources said.
They said no one was hurt during the clashes as police guards posted at the police station exercised restraint.
Angry youths also indulged in stone pelting at fruit mandi in Parimpora area of the city after two persons were arrested by police, the sources said.
Locals alleged that police and paramilitary personnel thrashed them and ransacked their houses after they staged a demonstration against the arrest of two persons from the locality.
At least five persons were injured in the incident. However, police denied the charges. They said two persons were detained while the protestors were being chased.
Police lobbed tear gas shells and resorted to cane charge when a group of protesters damaged a security vehicle in Nunaar-Ganderbal, 25 km from here today.
Police fired tear gas shells to disperse a stone pelting mob in Maisuma in the heart of the city, but there was no report of any casualty, the sources said.
Residents of old city complained that curfew has been imposed as they were not allowed to move out of their houses, but police denied having imposed curfew and said law enforcing agencies were only strictly implementing prohibitory orders.
As a result of strike and strict implementation of prohibitory orders in old city, life remained crippled in Srinagar and elsewhere in the valley for the second successive day.
Shops and business markets, educational institutions, banks and semi-government offices remained closed in response to the call given by hardline faction of Hurriyat Conference headed by Syed Ali Shah Geelani.
Attendance in government offices was thin as both private and public transport remained off the roads, the sources said.
Violence broke out in various parts of old city on June 20 during the funeral procession of 25-year-old Mohammad Rafiq Bangroo who succumbed to injuries after being allegedly beaten up by CRPF personnel on June 12.
A mob tried to torch a mobile bunker of CRPF in Noorbagh locality, prompting the paramilitary force personnel to open fire which killed Javid Ahmad Malla and injured four others.
The killing of Malla sparked fresh violence with the separatists giving a call for Kashmir bandh yesterday and extending it by a day.
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