Srinagar,19-Nov: A complete shutdown was observed in Kashmir on Friday in the backdrop of Hyderpora encounter in which the kins of two of the four persons killed claimed they were innocent.Business establishments were closed, Public transport was largely off the roads, but private cars and auto-rickshaws were seen plying in some areas of the city on account of public holiday of Gurupurab,All Parties Hurriyat Conference Chairman, Masarat Aalam Butt, and the Hurriyat forum led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq called for complete shutdown on Friday against the recent extra-judicial killing of four civilians.”Hurriyat Conference regrets that as most peoples’ leadership and political activists are either in jails or under house detention, to protest such inhumanity, and in solidarity with the devastated families of the slain civilians and their demand that the dead bodies of their loved ones be returned to them for burial, people should observe a shut down on Friday 19th November on their own,” the Hurriyat said in a statement here.Earlier, the mortal remains of two people, Altaf Bhat and Mudassir Gul- killed in the controversial Hyderpora encounter were exhumed from Kupwara district and handed over to the families on Thursday. The exhumation happened on a day when the J & K government ordered a magisterial probe into the Hyderpora shooting on Monday night. (CNS)
