A strike called by separatists to protest the attack on senior Hurriyat leader Fazal Haq Qureshi evoked a partial response in the city on Saturday.
Security forces lobbed teargas shells to disperse stone-pelting mobs in different parts of Srinagar as the overall situation in the Kashmir Valley remained tense in the wake of spontaneous strike crippling normal life for the fourth consecutive day on Thursday. The demonstrators were protesting against the transfer of forest land to Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board.
Two of the hideouts were in Srinagar.
Kumar was promoted as CO of the battalion on July 12, a day before his daughter's seventh birthday.
'I will join the armed forces like my father,' says Arna Kumar, 6, whose father CRPF Commandant Pramod Kumar was killed by terrorists last Independence Day.
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