Stone-pelters deface Eid merriments in Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir

Srinagar, August 22 The festivals of Eid-Al-Adha was marred by violence in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar city when stone-pelters came out in the city and waved flags of Pakistan and feared terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

In a bid to disturb peace, the demonstrators chanted slogans and clashed with police faculty on duty in Srinagar's Eidgah region, not long after Eid petitions. They also pelted stones on security work force, who were trying to disperse them.

In another occurrence, a policeman was shot dead by terrorists outside an Eidgah in Kulgam's Zazripora, when he was leaving in the wake of offering petitions.

Prior in May, a traveller from Tamil Nadu's Chennai had lost his life in stone-pelting, a few days after the vehicle of a district judge from Bengaluru, who was on a holiday with his family, was pelted with stones. Around a same time, a bus carrying school students was also assaulted by unruly stone-pelters in Zawoora village of Shopian area.

The rampant incidents of stone-pelting in Jammu and Kashmir have turned into a matter of concern for the state administration, with Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman censuring the same, saying that in spite of the fact that the military can't be considered in charge of being firm with terrorists, it is extremely important to ensure safer movement of tourists to restore normalcy.