Restrictions in Srinagar to prevent protests
Srinagar, May 7: Authorities imposed restrictions in parts of Srinagar and some other places in the valley on Monday to prevent separatist-called protests and a sit-in outside the Civil Secretariat here.
The protest shutdown and sit-in was called by the Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL), a separatist conglomerate headed by Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik, against the killing of 10 people on Sunday including five civilians on Sunday.
The Civil Secretariat that houses the offices of the Chief Minister, her colleagues and senior bureaucrats is opening on Monday after a six-month sojourn in Jammu.
Security forces on Sunday killed five militants, including an assistant professor of the Kashmir University who had joined their ranks, leading to major street protests that claimed the lives of five civilians.
Authorities have placed Geelani and the Mirwaiz under house arrest while Malik has been taken into preventive detection.
All educational institutions have been shut in the valley. Exams scheduled for Monday were postponed.
Rail services were also suspended as a precautionary measure.
Mobile internet services remained suspended in all south Kashmir districts since Sunday i n addition to Srinagar and Ganderbal districts in the north of the valley.
Security have been deployed in the areas where restrictions and also at other law and order vulnerable places.
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Mathura train derailment: All three impacted rail lines fixed, normal traffic resumes
Mathura (PTI): Normal rail traffic between Delhi and Mathura resumed on Friday following the restoration of three tracks two days after a good train derailed in the area, officials said.
The Mathura-Palwal section has four railway lines of which traffic on three was disrupted due to the derailment of 25 wagons of the goods train on Wednesday between Vrindavan and Ajhai stations, they said.
"Traffic on the third line was restored at 10.30 pm on Thursday, while the other two lines were fixed on Friday afternoon and normal traffic was restored on the routes," Prashasti Srivastava, said the divisional commercial manager and public relations officers of Agra in North Central Railway.
"The railways had to either cancel some trains or the route of dozens of trains was diverted," she said earlier on Friday.
Meanwhile, a six-member committee has been formed to probe the cause of the derailment, chief PRO of North Central Railway (Prayagraj) Shashikant Tripathi said.
When asked about any suspected sabotage or terrorism link in the case, the official said things could be ascertained only after the probe is completed.
The derailment had impacted the services of around 30 trains on the route. Nearly 500 workers were deployed to clear the tracks, according to officials.
Divisional Railway Manager, Agra Division, Tej Prakash Agarwal told reporters on Wednesday that traffic on three railway lines was interrupted due to the derailment.
"Twenty-five wagons of the train taking coal to Suratgarh power plant (in Rajasthan) derailed after the Vrindavan yard," Agarwal said, adding that no one was injured in the incident.
While the exact cause of the derailment remains undetermined, officials are not ruling out any possibilities, including sabotage, General Manager of North Central Railway Upendra Chandra Joshi had said.
