Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 31: Normal life in the Kashmir valley was affected today due to a shutdown called by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq-led Hurriyat Conference to protest the new land laws notified by the Centre for Jammu and Kashmir.
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Most shops, petrol pumps and other business establishments were shut in Srinagar, the officials said.
Public transport was off the roads across the city, but private cars and autorickshaws were plying in some areas. Similar reports were received from other districts of the Valley, they said.
Security personnel were deployed in strength in vulnerable areas of the city and elsewhere in the Valley to avoid any untoward incident, according to the officials.
The Hurriyat had issued the call for the shutdown on Wednesday, a day after the Centre notified the new land laws.
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