In Indian occupied Kashmir, thousands of people from different areas of Kulgam district staged protest demonstrations, for the second consecutive day on Monday in Khee area of the district against the award of death sentence to a local boy by an Indian court in a fake case.
The demonstrations were led by Hurriyet leader Mukhatar Ahmad Waza, KMS reported. The protesters raised pro-freedom and anti-India slogans on the occasion. Muzaffar Ahmad Rather, an 8th class student, had gone missing in 2002 from his residence in Kulgam, and his arrest was shown by Indian Border Security Force in Kolkata in 2007. Hurriyet leaders including Aasiya Andrabi, Yousuf Naqash, Shabbir Ahmed Dar, Iqbal Mir, Ahsan Untoo and Imtiyaz Reshi in their statements condemned the death sentence by a Kolkata court to the boy.
Resistance leaders and organizations including Noor Kalwal, Ghulam Nabi Zaki, Zahoor Ahmad Butt and Tehreek-e-Hurriyet Jammu and Kashmir staged a protest demonstration in Srinagar against atrocities of Indian forces in the territory. Normal life was adversely affected in the entire Indian occupied Kashmir due to strike by public transporters against anti-people policies of the puppet regime.
All types of vehicles including taxis, buses and mini buses went off the roads across the valley. Meanwhile, the illegally detained Hurriyet leaders, Shabbir Ahmad Shah and Muhammad Yasin Malik, in their separate statements said that India had no constitutional right to celebrate its Republic Day in the internationally-recognized disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir.