Srinagar/Kashmir (March 05, 2013): According to media reports a day after a youth was killed in police firing in north Kashmir’s Baramulla town, Indian occupant authorities have imposed curfew in 10 police station areas of Kashmir Valley. It is claimed that the curfew is imposed as a precautionary measure with the authorities apprehending law and order problem.
The areas where curfew has been imposed reportedly include Rainawari, Khanyar, Navhatta, Safar Kadal and Maharajganj police station areas of old city and Zadibal, Maisuma and Kalan Khaud in the new city.
According to certain media reports curfew is also imposed in Baramulla and Sopore.
Meanwhile, according to a report, first information report has been registered against a Colonel named Dalbinder Singh for killing a young man in the case.
According to a news report by Greater Kashmir “[a] 24 year old youth was killed and another injured after troops belonging to 46-RR fired at a group of people who were protesting against the ransacking of houses and damage to scores of vehicles parked in front of their houses by the troopers”.