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Fresh spiral of violence in Jammu
over Amarnath shrine land
WSN Network
 JAMMU: The
troubled Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir exploded with fresh
violence as scores have been injured during continuing clashes
between Hindu protesters and police despite curfew in Jammu areas.
Protesters have been angry at cancellation of transfer of forest
land to a Hindu shrine of Amarnath cave.
Security forces
fired in the air to scatter protesters who, defying curfew, took to
the streets and fought pitched battles with police at Muthi on the
outskirts of the city. Protests have been fuelled further by the
suicide of one youth and an attempted suicide by another on Tuesday.
Kamaljeet on
Tuesday allegedly attempted suicide, triggering a fresh wave of
violence in which over 20 persons were injured in Jammu. Protestors
threw petrol bombs, burnt tyres and clashed with police.
Kamaljeet is an
activist of Amarnath Sangharsh Samiti leading the protests. As the
news of the youth's attempted suicide spread in city, over 2,000
people, including top leadership of BJP, VHP, Bajrang Dal, Panun
Kashmir, Shiv Sena and Sangrash Samiti assembled before the hospital
and raised slogans against Governor NN Vohra.
Protesters burnt
tyres and effigies of the Governor and pelted stones on power
development department house and police control room building.
They also threw
3 to 4 petrol bombs at the bulding, and clashed with police who
fired dozens of teargas shells and resorted to heavy cane charge.
Today's alleged
suicide bid by the youth came four days after another young man
Kuldeep Kumar, an activist of the Sangharsh Samiti, took his life by
consuming poison, an incident that fuelled violent protests against
Amarnath land transfer row.
Curfew remained
in force in the trouble-torn city where tension ran high. Monday
witnessed a shutdown, called by the Shri Amarnath Sangharsh Samiti,
which is spearheading the stir over the land revocation row.
Right wing Hindu
ultra-nationalists of the Shiv Sena, the VHP and the BJP are backing
the agitation.
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July, 2008
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