Normal life was affected in Kashmir on Thursday due to a shutdown to mark the 37th death anniversary of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front founder Muhammad MaqboolBhat, who was hanged in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail on this day in 1984, officials said.
Most of the shops, fuel stations and other business establishments were shut in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, while public transport was largely off the roads, they said.
However, they said private cars, auto-rickshaws and cabs were plying in the city. The officials said similar reports of shutdown were also received from other district headquarters of the Valley. The forces were deployed in strength at vulnerable places in the city and elsewhere in the Valley to avoid any untoward incident, the officials said.