Separatist-sponsored strike enters third day

Srinagar, July 10 (PTI) The separatist-sponsored strike
protesting against the killing of an undergraduate student
paralysed life across India's northern state of Jammu and
Kashmir including capital Srinagar for the third day Friday.

Shops, educational institutions, banks and
semi-government institutions remained closed and transport off
the roads in Srinagar and major towns of the Valley in
response to strike called by the hardline Hurriyat Conference
headed by Syed Ali Shah Geelani against mysterious death of a
college girl in Kupwara, re-arrest of Geelani and violation of
human rights.

Trouble started in Kupwara Thursday, when family members
of a second year student Aamina alleged that a jawan of
Territorial Army Ashiq Hussain Peer assaulted her inside the
house which caused her death at Dolipora, 100 kms from here.

Police registered a case of murder and arrested the
alleged prime accused Senior Superintendent of Police,
Kupwara, Uttam Chand said.

The Deputy Commissioner Kupwara Showket Mir constituted a
11-member team of doctors for conducting postmortem of the
body. A special three-members doctors team was requisitioned
from Srinagar to conduct postmortem of the deceased in a fair
manner, report of which was awaited.

The Deputy Commissioner ordered closure of all
educational institutions for two days in view of tense
situation in the district.

Geelani who was arrested on June 6, was re-arrested
Thursday even after a local court ordered his release on bail,
on charges of delivering "hate speech" five years back.

The Hurriyat Conference condemned the detention of
Geelani as "unjust" and said "the administration has made
mockery of the judicial system. Every time Geelani gets bail
from the court, he is detained in a new case", a spokesman of
the Hurriyat said.

Angry over the killing of Asrar Mushtaq Dar, whose body
was found on Wednesday, people demanded arrest and punishment
to the culprits.

Dar, a resident of Maisuma locality of the city, went
missing on July 3, when the area witnessed a violent clash
between police and a stone-pelting mob protesting the killing
of four persons in Baramulla town.

The family members of Asrar accused police of showing no
seriousness in tracking the case. "Police did not show
seriousness in tracking the case. It seemed as if they were
looking for a pickpocket or a burglar", Khurshid Ahmad, uncle
of the murdered boy said.

From day one, police lacked seriousness to find him, they
were preoccupied with other things. they gave preference to
maintaining law and order than solving the case, he said.

Authorities have deployed policemen and paramilitary
CRPF jawans on the roads to main law and order. PTI AMS
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