SRINAGAR, India-controlled Kashmir, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Normal life in Muslim majority areas of the India-controlled Kashmir Saturday remained affected due to a strike called by separatists against the detention of their leaders, officials and locals said.
The shops, government offices, banks and business establishments in these areas including Srinagar city, the region's summer capital, remained closed in response to the shutdown call. Traffic was also off the roads.
The local government in India-controlled Kashmir has arrested separatist leaders including Syed Ali Geelani, Shabir Shah, NayeemKhan and female separatist leader Aasiya Andrabi for organizing anti-Indian protests and booked them under public safety act.
"Though courts have ordered their release but the authorities are booking them in new cases," said a Hurriyat activist.
The anti-Indian demonstrations broke out in the region following the May 30 incident of rape and murder of two women aged17 and 23 years in Shopian town, 50 kilometers south of Srinagar.
Locals alleged the duo were first raped and then murdered. They suspected the hand of Indian troopers in the incident.
Police initially maintained that the duo drowned in the nearby stream, however the forensic experts confirmed rape and murder of the duo.
The incident stirred huge unrest in the whole of region.
A judicial probe has found the police officers on duty in the town responsible for destroying evidence of the case.
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