SRINAGAR: Kashmir Traders and Manufacturers Federation (KTMF) president Haji Muhammad Yasin Khan and over 55 other traders from across the Valley were taken into preventive custody in this summer capital.
Scores of traders, including Mr Khan and many KTMF leaders, from across the Valley today held a sit-in protest at Ghanta Ghar in Lal Chowk, the nerve center in Srinagar, against the proposed implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST) in the state.
However, when the traders tried to take out a protest rally against the tax regime, security forces deployed in the area took over 55 traders, besides Mr Khan into preventive custody. All the traders were lodged in Kothibagh police station in Srinagar.
Meanwhile, normal life was affected as shop and business establishments remained closed and very less number of vehicles plied on the roads in the Valley due to a daylong strike called by KTMF against GST.
The strike comes two days after the government once again failed to break the ice on implementation of GST in the state as the All Party Consultative Group (APCG) meeting called to build consensus on the tax regime was inconclusive on Thursday.
However, another session of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislature has been summoned from July 4 to discuss and pass GST, which was rolled out in the country from midnight last night. (AGENCIES)
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