Kashmir observed a shutdown on Tuesday against the alleged ill-treatment meted out to the incarcerated Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman Muhammad Yaseen Malik
Shops and business establishments and the majority ofeducational institutions remained closed. The public transport was mostly offthe roads in civil lines and uptown Srinagar though private vehicles, cabs andthree-wheelers could be seen plying on some routes.
Reports of shutdown were also received from other districtsof the Valley. However, inter-district transport wasn’t affected much. Theauthorities had deployed additional security forces besides suspending trainservices between Banihal and Baramulla for security reasons.
The shutdown call was given by separatists against thealleged ill-treatment of Malik, the “ongoing crackdown” against Kashmiriseparatist leaders, activists, senior businessmen, trade union leaders, kithand kin of separatists and other people from different walks of life.
The shutdown was, according to separatist leaders, also observed to protest the national highway closure for two days of the week and the suspension of cross-LoC trade.