Author: PTI
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: August 18, 2008
Intensifying their struggle for restoration
of nearly 100 acres of land to Amarnath shrine board, thousands of protestors
on Monday courted arrest after holding demonstrations in front of police stations
in the Jammu region.
The protestors raised slogans of "bam
bam bholay" and marched to police stations as a three-day 'jail bharo
andolan' called by the Shri Amarnath Sangarsh Samiti (SASS) got underway.
Police took them to schools and stadiums in
vehicles. Reports from Udhampur said that police resorted to lathicharge and
burst teargas shells to disperse the protestors.
Reports of agitators courting arrest also
poured in from Kathua, Samba and R S Pura.
Over one lakh people demanding transfer of
nearly 100 acres of land to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) and recall
of Governor NN Vohra are likely to court arrest during the three-day 'jail
bharo Andolan,' said SASS spokesman Narinder Singh.
Meanwhile, police said that curfew was relaxed
today from 5 am to 8 pm in Kishtwar, Jammu and Udhampur districts.
"In Kishtwar, which witnessed violence
last week, there was no untoward incident and curfew has been relaxed for
the day. However, tension is still high," Deputy Commissioner Sudershan
Kumar Sharma told PTI.
Samba and Jammu have been under curfew for
the past 18 days while Udhampur has been facing curfew restrictions for the
past 13 days. In Samba, the curfew was relaxed on Monday from 5 am to 2 pm.
