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Jammu: Protesters attack Congress leader

22 Aug 2008, 0045 hrs IST,TNN
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Jammu_tense_protesters_attack_police_station/articleshow/3389045.cms


JAMMU/SRINAGAR: There was no let up in violent protests against the
revocation of forestland transfer to the Amarnath Shrine Board on
Thursday, as senior Congress leader and former J&K deputy chief
minister Mangat Ram Sharma had a narrow escape when protesters
attacked him at Bhagwatinagar in Jammu. ( Watch )

SSP S D S Jamwal said Sharma was attacked while he was visiting a
doctor with his grandson. "Protesters attacked his vehicle with rods
and stones," he said. Sources said a cop saved Sharma from the
rampaging mob and whisked him away on his scooter. Raising
anti-Congress, PDP and NC slogans, the protesters set three cars in
Sharma's cavalcade on fire. "Later, the mob also torched a nearby
police nakka," a police officer said.

Sharma has been at the receiving end of the Amarnath protesters; mobs
have twice attacked his house in Jammu's upmarket Gandhi Nagar
neighbourhood. Day curfew, meanwhile, was lifted from Jammu and
Udhampur districts, while it was relaxed for varying periods in other
areas of the province. Curfew was reimposed in Jammu after violent
protests on Wednesday, the third and final day of Shri Amarnath Yatra
Sangarsh Samiti (SASS)'s 'Jail Bharo Andolan'.

Authorities relaxed curfew for three hours in Kishtwar town, the scene
of communal clashes on August 12 that left two people dead and several
others injured. "Curfew was relaxed for 11 hours in Samba," a senior
official said.

A large number of people turned up for Samiti's scheduled "funeral
ceremony of Union government" programme in Jammu. Reports from across
Jammu region said similar processions were carried out "to register
protest against Centre's silence over the Jammu agitation".

The Valley remained largely peaceful for the third consecutive day,
after 10 days of violent street protests against the alleged economic
blockade left at least 22 people dead.

Police resorted to teargas shelling and mild baton charge to disperse
protesters at Munawarabad in old Srinagar. "The protesters were trying
to march towards United Nations Military Observers' office," an
official said. He said no one was hurt in police action.

Students continued to boycott classes and took to streets. "The
indiscriminate use of power proves that New Delhi wants to suppress
Kashmiris," Rafiqa Akhtar of prestigious Women's college said. She
said college students' protests prove that even youth are against
"imperialism".