Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Police fired tear gas shells and used baton to disperse a Muharram procession in in Srinagar’s Batmaloo area on Friday. The mourners pelted stones on the police and a fierce clash is going on in the area.
Women and children were also attacked after the procession was taken out in the streets.
Ashura marks the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussein (RA), the grandson of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (SAW), in Karbala.
The armoured vehicles had been parked at major junctions while concertina wires had been laid on the roads and city entry points to stop the movement of people.
Authorities on Friday imposed curfew like restrictions in Srinagar city to thwart any attempt to take out Muharram procession following apprehensions that separatists might convert the religious gathering into a political assembly. Strict prohibitory orders under section 144 were imposed in areas falling under Kothibagh, Maisuma, Kralkhud and Shaheedgunj police stations of the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.
The officials said the restrictions in these areas were imposed due to apprehensions that separatist groups might attempt to stage anti-national protests during Muharram processions on Friday. Sources said the authorities feared protests over Hardline Hurriyat conference leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s call for protests after Friday prayers against the situation in Gaza and BJP’s increased rhetoric demanding hanging of 2001 Parliament attack death row convict Afzal Guru.
Successive governments in the state have been disallowing traditional processions on the eighth and tenth of Muharram since the armed insurgency broke out in the late 80′s.Meanwhile, from last 12 years for shias in kashmir it is a ban to come out with procession on muharram but the Shia Muslims of Indian held Kashmir had been taken out the processions on these days by violating the Government restrictions.
Heavy contingents of police were deployed outside the residences of the leaders and were conveyed to stay indoors.
Written by Mohammed
We are group of Shia students whose aim is to make reach the fact about real islam and answer the doubts raised against shiaism in mondern days.
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