Srinagar: Police resorted to aerial firing in Batamaloo area of Srinagar on Friday to quell pro-freedom protests.
Eyewitnesses told Kashmir Narrator that a number of youth took to streets after Friday prayers and assembled in Bazar Batamaloo to carry out a protest procession.
However, police fired several rounds of live ammunition and tear-gas shells to disperse the youth, an eyewitness said.
Till last reports came, heavy stone-pelting was going on in Siddiq Abad area Batamaloo.