Section 144 imposed in south Kashmir after LeT commander Junaid Mattoo's encounter

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Section 144 imposed in south Kashmir after LeT commander Junaid Mattoo's encounter

Section 144 prohibits free assembly of more than four people in an area.Police and paramilitary forces have been deployed in huge numbers on the roads around Srinagar.

Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code(CrPc) was imposed in south Kashmir's Kulgam and Anantnag today,a day after Lashkar-e-Taiba(LeT) militants ambushed a police jeep and killed six policemen to avenge the killing of a top LeT commander,Junaid Mattoo,by the security forces on Friday.

A shutdown was called by the separatist leaders of the valley to protest the killing of two civilians in an encounter on Friday in south Kulgam district.

The LeT militants ambushed a police jeep and killed six policemen,including a station House Officer,and disfigured their bodies with bullets.

Police today discovered bodies of the three LeT militants killed in a joint operation by Army,J-K Police and CRPF in Arwani village of Bijbehara in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir.

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