Summary Locals who stepped out were forced to walk for several kilometres as facilities were not available.
SRINAGAR (Reuters) - Streets in India’s Srinagar city in the Kashmir Valley were deserted on Wednesday (August 7) as restrictions on the gathering of people continued to be in place in the area, two days after the government scrapped the special status of occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
Aiming to integrate the revolt-torn region fully into India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government scrapped rules restricting property purchases, state jobs and college places to residents only.
Locals who stepped out were forced to walk for several kilometres as facilities were not available to them.
Heavy security was deployed in several parts of the region with police patrolling and conducting security checks at various places while a ban on public gatherings of more than four people stayed in force.
Kashmir has long been a bone of contention between India and Pakistan. Tensions flared after a vehicle laden with explosives rammed into an Indian police convoy on February 14, killing 40 paramilitary police, and leading to aerial clashes between the two nations.
