12 injured in clashes in Srinagar

At least 12 people were injured today in fresh clashes between protestors and security forces, following death of a 16-year-old boy due to alleged poisoning in Eidgah area of the city.
Qaiser Sofi from Eidgah area of the city died at a hospital here this morning.
After his burial, some youth indulged in stone pelting on security forces, prompting use of force by the law enforcing agencies, a police official said.
He said 12 people were injured out of which six have sustained pellet injuries.
Sofi was reported missing on October 25 and found in an unconscious state in Shalimar area of the city six days later and hospitalised, the official said.

However, local residents of the area alleged that the teen was force fed some poisonous substance by security forces.

Normal life elsewhere in the valley remained affected for the 120th consecutive day due to the separatist-sponsored strike.
While most of the shops, business establishments and fuel stations across Kashmir were shut, some were open in few areas in Civil Lines and outskirts of the summer capital Srinagar, the official said.
He said most of the public transport continued to remain off the roads but auto-rickshaws and cabs were seen plying at some places in the Valley, including in few areas of the city here.

The separatists, who are spearheading the ongoing agitation in Kashmir, have been issuing weekly protest calendars since Hizbul militant Burhan Wani's killing in an encounter with security forces on July 8. The separatists have extended the strike till November 10.
While there were no curbs on the movement of people anywhere in Kashmir, restrictions on the assembly of people under Section 144 CrPC were in place throughout the Valley, the official said.
He said security forces have been deployed in strength at vulnerable spots and along the main roads as a precautionary measure to maintain law and order as well as to instill a sense of security among the people to carry out their day-to-day activities without fear.

As many as 85 people, including two cops, have been killed and several thousand others injured in the ongoing unrest in the Valley.
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Regarding the boy who was found lying near CIE complex in Shalimar area close to Dal Lake here with froth oozing from his mouth, a police spokesman said an investigation is underway into the case registered under section 309 Ranbir Penal Code (attempt to suicide).
"Police is investigating the case registered under section 309 RPC regarding a boy who was found lying near CIE complex Shalimar with froth oozing from his mouth and succumbed at SKIMS, Soura last evening," the spokesman said.

He said Qaiser, a resident of Doodh Mohalla, was reportedly missing from his house since October 27.
"On the next day, his father received a call from a person who identified himself as a private guard working at the CIE complex, Shalimar stating that his son is lying near the CIE complex with some froth oozing from his mouth.
"On this information, a police party of police station Nishat along with the relatives of the deceased rushed to the spot and shifted him to SKIMS hospital for treatment.
"The doctors at SKIMS performed his stomach wash and sample was set to FSL for analysis to ascertain the nature of the poisonous substance he had consumed," the spokesman said.

As per the doctors, the spokesman said, the patient had a history of GTCS (epilepsy).