Normalcy returned to the Valley on Sunday after two days of shutdown and restrictions imposed in the wake of the killing of Zakir Musa in an encounter with the security forces in Pulwama district on Thursday.
No restrictions were in place in any part of the valley onSunday. However, sources said minor protests were seen in old Srinagar.
Shops, fuel stations and other business establishmentsreopened this morning while public transport operated normally.
The weekly Sunday market at the TRC Chowk-Batamaloo axisthrough the LalChowk city centre remained open.
Zakir Musa, head of the AnsarGhazwat-ul-Hind, was killed inan encounter with security forces at Dardsara village of Tral in the southKashmir’s Pulwama district on Thursday evening.
Fearing law and order problems, authorities had imposedcurfew in parts of Kashmir Valley as a precautionary measure on Friday. Thecurfew continued on Saturday in view of a strike call given the HurriyatConference chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani against the killing of Musa and acivilian, Zahoor Ahmad a resident of Naira Pulwama by unidentified gunmen on Thursday.
Mobile internet was also suspended on Thursday night acrossthe valley, but the low-speed service was restored in most parts on Saturdayevening following improvement in the situation. The high-speed mobile internetservice continued to remain barred.
PROTESTS IN SOIBUG
Meanwhile, people at Soibug area in Budgam district Sundayheld protests against the alleged beating of two youths by the security forces.
Sources said a large number of people took to the streets onSunday against the alleged detention and thrashing of two boys by the securityforces at Dharmuna village in Budgam.
The protesters alleged that during demonstrations in theaftermath of militant commander Zakir Musa’s killing, security forces detainedsome youths belonging to Dharmuna village.
Family members of one of the two boys alleged that both hadbeen ruthlessly beaten by the soldiers.
One of the injured FazilFayaz Malik, 14, of Soibug villagewas referred to the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), wherehis condition is said to be critical.
Doctors said that Fazil has been placed on ventilator.
PRO defence Col Rajesh Kalia said that details are beingascertained. “We are ascertaining the facts,” he told Greater Kashmir.