A Pakistani intruder was also killed in the exchange of fire, they added.
The previous highest voter turnout in the Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency was witnessed in 1984 at 58.90 percent.
Twenty-six-year-old Lieutenant Sushil Khajuria was part of the team that was scrambled to take on terrorists who were trying to infiltrate the Indian territory from across the border.
A huge cache of arms, ammunition and explosives were recovered in the Kashmir Valley and three militant sympathisers were also arrested in separate operations, officials said on Tuesday.
Police fired warning shots and lobbed teargas shells to disperse stone-pelting protestors during two-hour curfew relaxation in old Anantnag town on Saturday morning even as authorities imposed curfew in two more areas of Trehgam and Kupwara towns after agitation by locals.
A policeman was injured when unidentified terrorists fired upon a police team even as a stone pelter was arrested in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir.
A 24-year-old man was seriously injured on Sunday after an automatic weapon of a paramilitary trooper got accidentally fired in the border village of Trehgam in north Kashmir Kupwara district.
There were no restrictions on the movement or assembly of people anywhere in the Valley.
A Border Security Force jawan allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday.
None of the other injured, including 10 security men, had received bullet injuries, they said, but were hurt in the clashes which were going on since morning.
Six militants, including a Pakistani infiltrator and a Jamaat-e-Islami activist, were among 10 people killed in Jammu and Kashmir where police arrested six youths being herded to Pakistan for arms training since Sunday night, a police spokesman said
The joint separatist camp, including Hurriyat Conference factions led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik-led Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front, has asked the people to march to Tral to pay tributes to Wani, who was killed in an encounter with security forces on this day last year.
Chairman of the hard line faction of the Hurriyat Conference Syed Ali Shah Geelani, on Tuesday, called for a Kashmir bandh on Wednesday to protest the killing of three boys by the army.
Curfew continued to cripple the Valley for the tenth day.
A youth died in clashes between stone-pelters and security personnel near the encounter site.
Curfew remained in force in six police station areas of the city, Anantnag town, Kokernag and Khanpora in Baramulla district as restrictions on assembly of four or more people continued in entire Kashmir.
'.. if the cost is its own survival,' says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Mansi, the Labrador, received an enemy bullet, something which was enough to provoke her handler who started firing relentlessly at the infiltrators in Jammu and Kashmir
The four-year-old Labrador and her handler Bashir Ahmed War laid down their lives to prevent an infiltration bid by terrorists in north Kashmir.
Uneasy calm prevailed in the Valley as the police continue to place restrictions in several parts for the sixth day.
Life in most parts of Kashmir started limping back to normalcy after remaining paralysed for five days due to strikes and protests.
Normal life has been paralysed due to curfew-like restrictions and separatists-sponsored strike since Saturday.
Hundreds others were wounded many of whom received bullet and pellet injuries and are undergoing treatment in various hospitals.
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