By IRNA,
Srinagar, India : Indian security forces are patrolling streets in cities and towns across Kashmir and in some places enforcing curfew to prevent pro-independence demonstrations on the 61st anniversary of landing of Indian troops in Kashmir today.
Streets in the capital city are deserted with a complete shut down bringing normal life to a stand still.
The Kashmir Coordination Committee (KCC), spearheading the ongoing agitation against New Delhi’s rule, has called for strike to protest against the landing of Indian troops in Srinagar on this day in 1947.
However reports said paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force is enforcing an undeclared curfew in Srinagar where lawyers associated with the Kashmir High Court Bar Association are planning to form a human chain in the city on the call of KCC.
The chain stretching from the lower courts to the High Court, a distance of nearly a kilometer, is likely to be joined by Hurriyat Conference leaders including Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, a KCC spokesman said.
Women are scheduled to form a separate human chain from Dalgate, near Dal Lake leading up to headquarters of United Nations Observers Group in the uptown city, he said.
Meanwhile troops were enforcing a strict curfew in northern Baramulla following two days of street clashes in the town.
A 25 year old university student, Irfan Amin, was killed and half a dozen others wounded in police firing on demonstrators on Sunday.
Widespread demonstrations rocked the town, situated on Srinagar- Muzaffarabad Road, following mass arrests by police and their alleged atrocities on town residents.
Meanwhile reports from other major district headquarters including Anantnag (Islamabad), Kulgam, Pulwama in south Kupwara in north and Budgam in central Kashmir say strike has thrown normal life out of gear and brought electioneering of pro-India parties to a complete halt.
Elections for 87 member state assembly, opposed by the pro- Independence parties, are due in Kashmir from November 17 and will stretch for over a period of one month with last phase being held on December 24.