Forceful protests broke out in Parimpora area of Srinagar held Kashmir after a youth was detained from his shop by Indian police. The demonstrators, raising anti-India and pro-liberation slogans, clashed with the personnel of Indian Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Special Operations Group of police, who resorted to heavy baton charge and excessive teargas shelling to disperse the protesters, Kashmir Media Service reported.
The police arrested one more teenager identified as Mugais Ahmad. The action further fuelled the clashes, which hit the movement of transport on the Srinagar-Baramulla highway for some time. On the other hand, people took to the streets at Batpora and Chankhan in Sopore against the arrest of two students. They chanted slogans like: "We want freedom," and "Go India go."
Meanwhile, body of a 65-year-old missing man, Noor Mohammad Hamal, was recovered from River Jhelum near Pantha Chowk in Srinagar. A ten-year-old, Owais Lone, was injured when an explosive device went off in the compound of his house at Sogam in Kupwara.