Jammu/Srinagar: A dozen activists of the Sri Amarnath Sangharsh Samiti (SASS) were injured in a clash with police in Jammu on Saturday morning.
SASS led a long agitation a few weeks back for the allocation of 40 hectares of land in Kashmir to the board that runs the Hindu shrine in the Himalayas.
The members of SASS had gathered at an auditorium here to pay homage to those killed in the agitation.
Meanwhile, life across the Kashmir valley was affected on Saturday following a shutdown called by Hurriyat.
In Jammu and Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar, business establishments, banks and educational institutions remained shut, while attendance in government offices was very thin owing to the non-availability of public transport here.
Skeletal traffic in the shape of some private cars and two-wheelers, however, plied on the city roads.
Reports reaching here from north Kashmir's Ganderbal, Bandipora, Kupwara and Baramulla districts and south Kashmir's Anantnag, Pulwama, Shopian and Kulgam districts indicated the separatist shutdown call had a near complete response there as well.
There have been no reports of violence from anywhere in the valley so far.
At least 34 people - 14 security personnel and 20 protesters - were injured in clashes between the two sides in the old city area of Nowhatta here Friday.
One deputy commandant of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was among the injured as he was hit by a stone on his head.
The separatists have given a call for an elaborate one-month long 'resistance programme' till October 6, when they propose to hold a massive march to city centre Lal Chowk.
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