In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, normal life remained disrupted, today, due to a shutdown against Indian government’s ongoing eviction and demolition campaign in the garb of anti-encroachment drive in territory.

According to Kashmir Media Service, shops and business establishments in Srinagar, Baramulla, Islamabad and other major cities and towns in the Kashmir Valley were closed while movement of traffic on the roads was very thin.

The shopkeepers closed their shops despite being threatened with dire consequences by the troops in case they failed to follow the instructions.

Illegally detained APHC Chairman Masarrat Aalam Butt and Shabbir Ahmed Shah in their messages from New Delhi’s Tihar Jail said that India is committing the worst violation of human rights by taking away the Kashmiris’ lands and demolishing their houses.

Meanwhile, New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists Asia program coordinator, Beh Lih Yi, in a statement slammed the Indian authorities for harassing journalists as Indian Tax Department officials continued their raids on the BBC’s New Delhi and Mumbai offices on the second consecutive day, today.

He said, the raids in the wake of documentary on Modi smack of intimidation and the authorities are using tax investigations as a pretext to target critical news outlets.