Town Observes Shutdown, Demand Punishment to Guilty SHOPIAN: Authorities on Sunday lifted the curfew from South Kashmirs restive Shopian district after 15 long days. The Government had imposed indefinite curfew in Shopian district on Sep 7 after CRPF personnel from Gagran camp had killed four persons claiming that they were all militants.
Despite lifting of curfew, Shopian and its adjacent areas observed a complete protest shutdown with shops and business establishments shut and transport remaining off the roads.
Residents said that they were not going to open up their shops and would continuously observe shut down till killers are not being punished. Due to strike, normal life was paralysed in the district. However, soon after curfew was lifted Sunday people in large numbers came out of theit homes and were seen busy in purchasing medicines and other essential items.
People here are facing acute shortage of essentials due to the prolonged restrictions and non-supply of fresh stocks, residents, this reporter talked to said. There is acute shortage of life-saving drugs, baby food and other essentials.
Reliable sources said that the district hospital has not received any fresh supply of medicine from past 15 days and stocks in hospital stores are shrinking with every passing day.
There were no food items left in the hospital kitchen store, patients and their attendants were unable to buy medicine or food from outside due to continue restrictions, people said.
One of the doctors said that there was shortage of life-saving drugs and other essential items in Shopian in general and hospital in particular.
He informed that no new stock of medicine entered the town for the past 15 days, So we restricted our duties only to emergency, labor and surgical patients.
People of Shopian and its adjacent areas complained that authorities restricted their movement for two weeks at a stretch and they were not allowed even to visit their orchards and fields due to which they have incurred heavy losses.
Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front team arrived in Shopian with the relief goods Sunday. Three Tata mobile vans were seen parked in Shopian main market with essential items, one of the witnesses said. Police did not allow JKLF Chief Muhammad Yasin Malik to visit Shopian and detained him near Pampore.
The situation in town remained peaceful. A police official said that Shopian town limped back to normalcy after two weeks and no untoward incident was reported from any part of the town on Sunday. (CNS)
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