Petition wants schools kept out of purview of Kashmir curfew

A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Centre and the Jammu and Kashmir government to keep schools, colleges and hospitals out of the purview of the curfew clamped in the violence-hit Valley.

The petition filed by Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party sought protection to students and daily wage labourers going to schools and for work respectively besides proving all necessary help to patients visiting hospitals.

Further, the petitioner has sought that chemist shops, clinics, the High Court and subordinate courts as well as graveyards are kept out of the curfew domain.