Curfew relaxed in whole Jammu city

Jammu, Feb 20 Authorities Wednesday relaxed curfew in the whole Jammu city for the first time since its imposition on Friday last as the situation improved.

Be that as it may, prohibitory orders will stay in force to maintain law and order.

District Magistrate, Jammu, Ramesh Kumar, initially ordered relaxation in the curfew in the whole city from 8 AM to 11 AM and later stretched out till 3 PM as no untoward incident was reported from anywhere.

Policemen were seen making rounds of the city early toward the beginning of today to report unwinding of the curfew and asked people to resume their normal activities.

Albeit a large portion of the shops and business foundations stayed shut and just private vehicles were mostly seen on the road, the facilitating of limitations enabled the people to leave their homes and buy essential commodities.

People in a few areas complained of lack of vegetables, milk and ration and requested that ATMs be made operational quickly as they are running out of cash.

Kumar said prohibitory requests under section 144 CrPC would stay in force in the whole city as a precautionary measure to maintain law and order.

All wine shops and bars will also stayed shut, he said.

Every single instructive establishment stayed shut in Jammu area on the requests of the administration for the 6th back to back day.

In any case, authorities said the examination of eighth and ninth classes would be held as per schedule Thursday in all districts of jammu province.

"In case of restrictions in any area, the admit cards of students and identity cards of teachers will be treated as time limitation passes," the authorities said.

They said excepting Jammu district, mobile internet services (2G only) was restored.

Curfew was relaxed in a staged way in the city on Tuesday and five police station areas falling in city's south a day earlier.

Curfew was imposed in the whole Jammu city on Friday last after huge enemy of Pakistan protests and sporadic incidents of violence over the terror assault in Pulwama area of south Kashmir which left 40 CRPF personnel dead.