Restriction relaxed in Jammu and Kashmir
Day time restrictions in Jammu and Kashmir have been relaxed from all 105 police station jurisdictions in Kashmir on Saturday.
Restrictions were first imposed across the Kashmir on 5 August when the Centre announced its decision to abrogate Article 370 of the Constitution and bifurcate the state into two Union territories. The restrictions were relaxed in phases from many parts of the valley as the situation improved with passage of time.
"Day time restrictions have been relaxed from all 105 police station jurisdictions in Kashmir. It has been done after improvement in the situation," Dilbag Singh, DGP Jammu and Kashmir told news agency ANI.
Earlier, national broadcaster DD news reported that "restrictions were lifted" from all 22 districts of Jammu and Kashmir.
On September 2, Jammu and Kashmir Principal Secretary Rohit Kansal said that 90 per cent of the valley was free of daytime restrictions.
Addressing a press conference, he said that on the law and order front, out of 111 police stations in Kashmir, only 105 function or are territorial. "Daytime restrictions have been fully lifted from 92 police stations, up from 81 last week", he said.
The government asked the local establishments to open schools in the valley in their bid to slowly bring the valley into the mainstream.
The shops and other establishments have been largely shut down in the Valley. The people have not opened their businesses in most areas since.
However, authorities have been imposing restrictions in vulnerable areas of the Valley every Friday, apprehending that vested interests might exploit the large gatherings at big mosques and shrines to fuel protests.
Most of the top level and second rung separatist politicians have been taken into preventive custody while mainstream leaders, including two former chief ministers -- Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, have been either detained or placed under house arrest.
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