Srinagar, (UNI): A partial shutdown was observed in Kashmir on Wednesday on the anniversary of the hanging of 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, official sources said.
Guru was hanged and buried inside the Tihar Jail on February 9, 2013.
Shops and business establishments in Srinagar’s old city and some other parts were shut. Life was normal in the Civil Lines area. Both public and private transport plied normally in the city.
A large number of police and paramilitary forces were deployed at sensitive places in old Srinagar.
” It is one of the signs of normalcy that no shutdown was observed in Srinagar,” Senior Superintendent of Police in Srinagar Rakesh Balwal said.
Reports of a partial shutdown were also received from Sopore, the native town of Guru, and some areas in south Kashmir. There was no impact of the shutdown call in major towns of north Kashmir.
