Srinagar: Separatist leader Sayeed Ali Shah Geelani was arrested today in Haiderpura in Srinagar, Jammu Kashmir in an attempt to defy curfew restrictions as per the latest reports from Kashmir.
The security forces have taken hum into the custody.
Its pertinent to mention that the hardliner Geelani and other separatist faction leaders were retrained inside their houses to prevent them from enticing the mob against the administration and in an attempt to pacify the current violence in the Valley.
KASHMIR is on the boil with thirty two deaths including the death of a police officer who was pushed into the river along with his vehicle. More than 200 have been reported injured.
Medical emergency has been declared in the Valley and the number of doctors attending to the patients is reportedly less in comparison to the patients.
Reports of Police Stations being burnt and a cop's wife and daughter been beaten have also come in.
Mehbooba Mufti,the Chief Minister of Jammu Kashmir has directed the forces to maintain maximum restraint against the mob and advised the parents to keep their kids off limits from roads to prevent further casualties.
In a bid to continue Amarnath Yatra amid such tense scene in Kashmir, the Amarnath Pilgrims have been advised to leave from Jammu during evening so that the tense areas of Kashmir could be travelled through at night which is the least resistant time zone as per security forces' calculations.
