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Restrictions under Section 144 of the CrPC were imposed in seven police station areas of Srinagar and also in Trehgam area of Kupwara in north Kashmir, a police official said. He said the seven police station areas of the city were Khanyar, Kralkhud, Maharajgunj, Maisuma, Nowhata, Rainawari and Safakadal.
The curbs were imposed as a precautionary measure to maintain law and order, the official said. Separatists Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik, under the banner of Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL), had asked people to observe a strike today on Bhat’s death anniversary.
They also asked the people to march to the office of the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) at Sonwar here. “A complete shutdown will be observed on February 11. Besides this protest shutdown, Kashmiris will march to the UN Observers’ office at Sonwar Srinagar and present a memorandum …demanding the return of mortal remains of Shaheed Mohammad Maqbool Bhat and Shaheed Mohammad Afzal Guru,” a statement by the JRL had said.
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He, however, said few private cars, cabs and auto- rickshaws were seen plying in areas where there were no restrictions.