Jammu: Curfew was clamped afresh in the entire district on Wednesday and army deployed in the city after violence erupted late last night leaving 40 people, including nine policemen, injured.
Fresh violence broke out in different parts of the city and stone-pelting mobs clashed with the police and Rapid Action Force (RAF) personnel, police said.
Police and RAF cane charged the mob, lobbed teargas shells and fired rubber bullets in which six RAF men and one sub-divisional police officer Rupinder Chalotra were injured among others.
Protestors burned down vehicles in Janpiur and Gandhi Nagar area. A private vehicle of a BJP general secretary Ajay Jamwal was set on fire while in Janpiur area, a mob barged into a police station and set the vehicles parked there on fire.
However, the three-day 'Jail Bharo Andolan' called by the Shri Amarnath Sangarsh Samiti (SASS) to demand transfer of more than 100 acres of land to the Amarnath Shrine Board entered its last day today. Curfew was relaxed in Samba for nine hours and in Udhampur for five hours and in Kishtwar for five hours Over 1200 vehicles have ferried essential supplies and fruits in and out of the Kashmir valley
Meanwhile National Security Advisor M K Narayanan today met Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra and other top officials of the state administration to discuss the present security situation following unrest over the Amarnath land issue, official sources said. Accompanied by Intelligence Bureau Director P C Halder and other officers from the Union Home Ministry, Narayanan had a meeting with Vohra, his three advisors and other top officials.
Narayanan's visit comes two days after thousands of people gathered near the local office of the United Nations Military Observers Group for India and Pakistan demanding an intervention of the international body. The meeting would chalk out the future strategy. The leaders are also expected to address rising differences between Hurriyat leaders Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Syed Ali Geelani
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