Police used brute force on women protestors
SRINAGAR; 21, Sep 2012: Clashes erupted between women protesters and government forces in Munnawarabad in summer capital Srinagar a while ago, sources and eyewitnesses told KMR News here.
Sources said a huge group of women of the Dukhtarin-i-Milat- a socio-religious resistance group tried to take out a procession from Munawarabad near Khayam, but were stopped by the government forces. The women, who were carrying their children along, did not relent, sources said, adding, government forces used tear smoke and chilly grenades to quell the protests. The women were led by Dukhtaran chief Aasiya Andrabi, sources said. The area remained tense at the filing of this report. The government on Friday imposed strict restrictions on the movement of people in old Srinagar city and Islamabad town in south Kashmir, fearing law and order problems over the anti-Islam video made in the US. Besides, internet services were suspended at midnight after the state government directed internet and telecom service providers to take all measures to ensure that a controversial film deemed offensive to Islam is not accessible to subscribers.
Restrictions under Section 144 CrPC, which bans assembly of four or more people, were imposed in five police station areas in the Old Srinagar City, police sources said. Similar restrictions were also imposed in Islamabad town in south Kashmir, which has witnessed protests against anti-Islam video made in the US, the sources said. A large posse of police and paramilitary personnel has been deployed in sensitive areas of the city and elsewhere in the Valley to maintain law and order, they said. Although there was no call for a strike today, markets have remained closed elsewhere in the Valley while the public transport remained off the road.
Sources said a huge group of women of the Dukhtarin-i-Milat- a socio-religious resistance group tried to take out a procession from Munawarabad near Khayam, but were stopped by the government forces. The women, who were carrying their children along, did not relent, sources said, adding, government forces used tear smoke and chilly grenades to quell the protests. The women were led by Dukhtaran chief Aasiya Andrabi, sources said. The area remained tense at the filing of this report. The government on Friday imposed strict restrictions on the movement of people in old Srinagar city and Islamabad town in south Kashmir, fearing law and order problems over the anti-Islam video made in the US. Besides, internet services were suspended at midnight after the state government directed internet and telecom service providers to take all measures to ensure that a controversial film deemed offensive to Islam is not accessible to subscribers.
Restrictions under Section 144 CrPC, which bans assembly of four or more people, were imposed in five police station areas in the Old Srinagar City, police sources said. Similar restrictions were also imposed in Islamabad town in south Kashmir, which has witnessed protests against anti-Islam video made in the US, the sources said. A large posse of police and paramilitary personnel has been deployed in sensitive areas of the city and elsewhere in the Valley to maintain law and order, they said. Although there was no call for a strike today, markets have remained closed elsewhere in the Valley while the public transport remained off the road.
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