Summary Call for the shutdown has been given by the joint resistance leadership.
SRINAGAR (Dunya News) – Complete shutdown is being observed on Tuesday to protest against the arrest of Hurriyat leaders by Indian authorities.
Call for the shutdown has been given by the joint resistance leadership comprising Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik to register protest and condemn the revengeful, arbitrary and illegal arrest of Hurriyat leaders.
All shops, business establishments and educational institutions are closed while traffic is off the road.
The puppet authorities have imposed strict restrictions and deployed Indian troops and police personnel in strength in Srinagar to prevent people from staging demonstrations against the arrest of Hurriyet leaders.
The Indian National Investigation Agency arrested various Hurriyet leaders including Altaf Ahmad Shah, Merajuddin Kalwal, Peer Saifullah, Ayaz Muhammad Akbar, Shahid-ul-Islam, Nayeem Ahmed Khan from Srinagar and Farooq Ahmed Dar from New Delhi after implicating them in false cases. Later, they were taken to New Delhi.
Those arrested from Srinagar were later airlifted to New Delhi.
