05 June, 2017
He was named as the successor of Wani after the latter was killed in a gunfight with security forces on July 8 previous year.
The Hurriyat Conference has called for a two-day valley wide shutdown to protest the killing of Bhat and also called for a "March to Tral" on May 30. The security forces quickly surrounded two houses in Saimoh village where the militants had taken shelter.
Two terrorists including Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) commander Sabzar Bhatt, who succeeded Burhan Wani, were killed in an encounter in Saimu sector of Tral in Jammu and Kashmir on 27 may.
Witnesses said a young man was killed and several other people were injured after government forces fired on the protesters near the site of the gunbattle.
Asserting that the Kashmir youth need employment, a top army officer on Sunday said that defying separatist shutdown call, hundreds of students participated in the army recruitment examination in the Valley.
Amid curfew and restrictions, Kashmir stayed shut for the second consecutive day to mourn the death of Hizb commander Sabzar Bhat and his associate Faizan Bhat, both natives of Tral.
Wani's killing triggered massive protests in the region for months and a security lockdown, during which at least 90 people majority teenagers were killed and over 14,000 injured in police and paramilitary shooting during protests.
Rajnath Singh also ruled out inviting separatist groups for talks on Kashmir and said whoever wanted to talk "development and peace" was welcome. One civilian was killed and dozens of others injured. Normal life remained crippled in this and other north Kashmir towns and tehsil headquarters, said a report from Bandipora, where shops remained closed and traffic was off the roads in support of the strike called by the separatists. Fearing law and order problems, the authorities have made a decision to continue with the restrictions in volatile areas of Srinagar and other districts of the Valley on Tuesday as well to prevent protests.
Authorities had suspended internet services on mobile phones on Saturday, and on Tuesday the internet facilities on landline broadband connection was also snapped at most places in the valley to prevent spread of rumours by miscreants.
All exams of Kashmir University and the Islamic University of Science and Technology (Awantipora) have been postponed, while the State Public Service Commission also postponed civil service (judicial) examination scheduled for Sunday.
Violence erupted on Saturday at more than 50 places in the valley, including in Srinagar and Tral, as stone-pelting youths were out on streets attacking security forces.
