Clashes erupts in Old City after Eid congregational Prayers on Monday. Eyewitnesses said that soon after the prayers concluded score of youth took on to street and raised anti-Indian slogans. As the protest turned violent security forces restored heavy teargas shelling to disperse the mob.Meanwhile, The Jammu and Kashmir government today arrested JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik ahead of Eid prayers and imposed curfew in city centre Lal Chowk, the pro-freedom group said here.
"Indian authorities have banned the Nimaz i Eid at Lal Chowk. The Nimaz was proposed by the flood-hit people of many localities, shopkeepers, businessmen and trade bodies. The businessmen and and the people whose business and houses have been destroyed by recent floods intended to appeal international community for immediate help and assistance to come out of the worst situation people of Kashmir are in because of the recent floods," the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front said.
The pro independence group while condemning the arrest of Malik and imposition of 'curfew' in Lal chowk said that this has once again exposed the "ugly and brutal face of India and its callous approach towards the flood devastated people of Kashmir"."JKLF once again appeals the international community to take a serious note of the devastation caused by floods in Kashmir and callous, tyrannical approach of India and its stooges towards Kashmir," it said."Kashmiris are humans and international community needs to come to the rescue of fellow humans who have been hit by a flood and have lost hundreds of men and women, business and property worth billions of dollars and where millions are compelled to live under open skies today," the JKLF said.
The organizers of the proposed Nimaz i EId had made all the arrangements for the prayer but at 12:00 during night police and forces laid siege of Lal Chowk and closed all the roads by putting razor wire and blockades on the entry points."Besides this whole area was put under strict curfew and in early morning and police raided the residence of JKLF chairman Malik and arrested him," the group said.