Srinagar, Sep 29 (IANS) Protests erupted in a Srinagar locality Thursday where residents alleged a woman had died of a heart attack after police visited her house to serve a warrant to her brother.
‘Protests erupted in Iqbal Park area where some people disrupted traffic following the death of a woman named Jana, wife of Abdul Gaffar Sheikh of Baran Pathar area.
‘The protesters alleged the woman had died of a heart attack after local policemen visited her home earlier today (Thursday) to serve a warrant issued by the district magistrate,’ a police officer told IANS here.
The officer said policemen had earlier served the warrant on Gulam Muhammad Sheikh, her brother.
Muhammad Yasin Malik, chairman of the pro-freedom Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), visited the family and assured his complete support to mount pressure for registration of an FIR by police and autopsy of the deceased woman to ascertain the actual cause of her death.
Following the assurance by the JKLF chairman, the protesters withdrew and life returned to normal in the area.
