Women’s Mysterious Death: Life in Valley Remains Disrupted on Fifth Day
The separatist-sponsored strike over mysterious death of two Shopian women and their alleged murder by security forces continues to disrupt the normal life in Kashmir valley on fifth day today as family members of the victims went on a hunger strike to demand justice.
Amid tense situation, security personnel patrolled the bare streets of Srinagar and major towns to the valley to maintain law and order.
According to officials, the situation in Shopian is “tense” where family members of the victims – Nelofar and Asiya – went on a hunger strike on Thursday.
The family members, Shakeel Ahmad Ahangar, husband and Nelofar and brother of Asiya, and Syed Abdul Hai, father of Nelofar, are insisting that guilty should be exposed.
In addition, villagers from Bonagam, an abutting country where the victims hailed from, put up make-shift tents in Shopian and decided not to return to their homes till the culprits were punished.
Normal life was hit in the valley as government offices, educational institutions, banks, courts and semi-government institutions besides markets remained closed in response to the strike called by hardliner Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who is likely to announce his “future course of action” after Friday prayers.
Reports from district towns said shops and business establishments were closed and transport off the roads in Anantnag, Baramulla, Budgam, Bandipora, Kupwara, Ganderbal, Pulwama and Kulgam.
Bodies of Nelofar (22) and her sister-in-law Asiya (17) were recovered on Saturday last after they went missing from their orchards in Shopian on Friday last sparking off massive protests in the valley.
