Witnesses said that soon after the bodies of the two persons killed in Friday’s CRPF firing near Amargarh railway station arrived in Sopore late on Friday night, irate crowds again relocated to the railway station and torched a residential quarter. On Saturday morning, the protests swelled with thousands more joining them; they set ablaze the railway station and other property, including the personal belongings of Railway Protection Force personnel who had already fled.

One person was killed and 15 others, including 13 policemen, were injured in clashes between protesters and security forces which opened fire in Pampore area in the outskirts of the city on Sunday.

Troops enforced a curfew in major towns in Indian Kashmir on Saturday as a fourth person died from injuries suffered when soldiers opened fire to quell demonstrators on Friday.

In Pattan town, along the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road, 13-year-old Rafiq Ahmed Butt was killed and scores others injured in clashes between policemen and violent crowds. Witnesses said an unruly mob barged into the local police station and torched one of the buildings as well as some stationary police vehicles.
Nine policemen had a close shave in this incident.

Chopping off a Sikh resident’s hair allegedly by a group of Muslim youth which objected to his looking for vegetables at a local market during a separatist-sponsored shutdown in Jammu and Kashmir’s southern Pulwama district set off widespread protests by the members of state’s minority community on Thursday.

CPI(M) state secretary Muhammad Yusuf Tarigami on Thursday moved a breach of privilege notice before the Speaker of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly after Independent MLA Eng. S.A. Rasheed alleged that he was beaten up by policemen when he visited a police station in frontier Kupwara district to file an FIR.

In a bizarre act, the Opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday briefly locked the gates of civil secretariat here to protest the curfews and other security restrictions imposed off and on in the Valley areas with a view to hold back protests called by separatists.

The security forces on Friday opened fire on stone-pelting protestors taking out a march on a call given by separatists, leaving two youth injured, one of them seriously.

The Jammu and Kashmir government on Tuesday constituted a judicial commission to enquire into 17 civilian deaths that occurred allegedly on account of actions by the state police and security forces.

A day after a busy working Sunday, normal life was crippled again across the Valley following a call for general strike from the separatists and imposition of curfew-like restrictions in volatile downtown Srinagar and some other areas to thwart protests.