A mob on Saturday set on fire a police barrack and a vehicle of the police department outside the Harzratbal Shrine on the banks of the Dal lake here following which security forces opened fire.

Hardline Hurriyat Conference leader, Mr Syed Ali Shah Geelani, was on Saturday released, two days after he was arrested from his Hyderpora residence here as a preventive measure. "Geelani has been re