Nowhatta News

CRPF said they learnt about the incident later as the vehicle was under attack and boys were on top of the same.

Normal life in Kashmir was today hit due to a strike called by separatist groups against the visit of Home Minister Rajnath Singh, even as authorities continued restrictions in parts of Srinagar city for a second consecutive day as a precautionary measure.

Authorities on Saturday imposed restrictions in parts of the city here to maintain law and order in the wake of apprehensions of trouble as the separatists had announced to hold a sit-in outside the NIA headquarters in Delhi.

Srinagar District Magistrate Farooq Ahmad Lone said restrictions under section 144 CrPc were imposed in areas falling under the jurisdiction of seven police stations -- Rainawari, Khanyar, Nowhatta, M.R.Gunj, Safa Kadal, Maisuma and Ram Munshibagh.

Hizbul militant Sajad Ahmad Gilkar, who belonged to Pandan locality in Nowhatta area, was among the three militants who died in Tuesday's gunfight with security forces in Redbug village.  

The J&K Police on Thursday said it had cracked the case of lynching of DSP Ayub Pandith.

Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday downgraded the security cover given to senior separatist leader, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq.

The Mirwaiz was accorded 'Z' category security cover after Hizbul Mujahideen militants shot dead his father, Mirwaiz Molvi Mohammad Farooq, at his residence in 1990.

Restrictions have been imposed in five police stations in downtown (old city) areas of Srinagar the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.

Top police officials expressed resolve that the guilty would not spared for the brutal killing of DSP Mohammad Ayub Pandith and said that a Special Investigation Team (SIT) had been formed to probe the case.

A mob had lynched Deputy Superintendent of Police Mohammad Ayoub Pandith outside the Jamia Masjid – Srinagar's biggest mosque in Nowhatta area – on Thursday.

Nowhatta, where the lynching took place on Thursday night, falls under the jurisdiction of the North Srinagar SP.

"Deeply disturbed and condemn the brutal act at Nowhatta," the Mirwaiz tweeted about the Thursday killing of Deputy Superintendent of Police Muhammad Ayub Pandit outside Jamia Masjid in Nowhatta area.

Clashes broke out between protestors and security forces after Friday prayers in north Kashmir's Sopore town and Old City in Srinagar.

Clashes broke out between protesters and security forces in Nowhatta area of Srinagar city and in Shopian town in south Kashmir on Friday, police said.

Militants hurled the grenade on a police party next to Ganjbaksh Park in Nowhatta area of Srinagar around 7.00 pm.

Mirwaiz Umer Farooq has been placed under house arrest in his uptown Nigeen residence on the outskirts of Srinagar.

Curfew was imposed in seven police station areas of the city today due to apprehensions of violence after Friday prayers. After increased movement of private vehicles for six days, the roads across Srinagar city today wore a deserted look.

At least 71 people have been killed and over 11,000 injured in the ongoing violence that started in Jammu and Kashmir on July 9, a day after the killing of top militant, Burhan Wani.

Last rites of CRPF commandant Pramod Kumar, who lost his life in Nowhatta terror attack on Monday, was performed in Jharkhand's Jamtara on Tuesday.