Curfew continues, Valley tense
11 Feb 2013 6:46 AM IST
Police said curfew restrictions under section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (pertaining to power to issue order in urgent cases of nuisance of apprehended danger) had been imposed here to maintain law and order in the wake of Afzal Guru’s hanging in Tihar jail on Saturday.
District magistrate Srinagar has, however, made it clear that there would be no restrictions on the movement of medical staff and those connected with other essential services, whose identity cards should be treated as curfew passes by security forces.
High tension continued in the Valley on Sunday although no major incident of violence occurred Saturday, as authorities had moved in promptly with massive deployments of police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel to enforce restrictions.
As a precautionary measure to prevent the spread of wild rumours, authorities have asked cable operators in summer capital Srinagar to suspend operations.
Reports from other major towns of the Valley, however, indicate that cable television operations continue there.
Afzal Guru’s family said it had not been informed of the date when he would be hanged. Guru was convicted of plotting the 13 December, 2001 attack on the Indian parliament and sentenced to death 2002.
Aijaz Guru, Afzal’s brother, told reporters Saturday that the family had not received any letter or information from the government about Afzal’s hanging, and only learnt of it from reports on TV.
Aijaz said the government of India must return the body of his brother so that he is given a proper and decent burial in his ancestral village.
‘We have written a letter to district magistrate Baramulla seeking the state government’s help to get Afzal’s body’, Aijaz said.
Hundreds of locals gathered in Afzal’s ancestral Doabgah village near Sopore town Saturday to offer ‘Gaibana Nimaz-e-Jinaza’ (Funeral prayers in absentia).
District magistrate Srinagar has, however, made it clear that there would be no restrictions on the movement of medical staff and those connected with other essential services, whose identity cards should be treated as curfew passes by security forces.
High tension continued in the Valley on Sunday although no major incident of violence occurred Saturday, as authorities had moved in promptly with massive deployments of police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel to enforce restrictions.
As a precautionary measure to prevent the spread of wild rumours, authorities have asked cable operators in summer capital Srinagar to suspend operations.
Reports from other major towns of the Valley, however, indicate that cable television operations continue there.
Afzal Guru’s family said it had not been informed of the date when he would be hanged. Guru was convicted of plotting the 13 December, 2001 attack on the Indian parliament and sentenced to death 2002.
Aijaz Guru, Afzal’s brother, told reporters Saturday that the family had not received any letter or information from the government about Afzal’s hanging, and only learnt of it from reports on TV.
Aijaz said the government of India must return the body of his brother so that he is given a proper and decent burial in his ancestral village.
‘We have written a letter to district magistrate Baramulla seeking the state government’s help to get Afzal’s body’, Aijaz said.
Hundreds of locals gathered in Afzal’s ancestral Doabgah village near Sopore town Saturday to offer ‘Gaibana Nimaz-e-Jinaza’ (Funeral prayers in absentia).
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