Restrictions were eased in 35 police station areas of the Valley while 17 telephone exchanges, out of the total 96, were made functional, J&K Principal Secretary Rohit Kansal had said on Saturday. Reports of protests and incidents of violence in certain areas led to the re-imposition of restrictions. Restrictions were imposed in Jammu and Kashmir ahead of the abrogation of Article 370. The government said that it will lift restrictions in J&K in a phased manner

Srinagar: A day after restrictions were lifted in several areas of Kashmir, fresh curbs have been reimposed in some parts of the Valley after reported incidents of violence.

On Saturday, restrictions that were imposed in Jammu and Kashmir ahead of the abrogation of Article 370 were eased in some parts of the Valley. Landline services and 2G internet services were also restored in several areas of the city yesterday.

However, reports of protests and incidents of violence in certain areas led to the reimposition of restrictions.

According to officials, the protests took place at around a dozen places in which several protesters were injured, news agency PTI reported. The number of injured people is not known yet, they added.

On Saturday, J&K Principal Secretary Rohit Kansal had said the restrictions were eased in 35 police station areas of the Valley while 17 telephone exchanges, out of the total 96, have been made functional. 

"The process of providing relaxation and easing out of restrictions is already in progress. Relaxation has been provided in 35 police station areas across the length and breadth of the Valley and so far, there are no reports of any untoward incident. The public transport is plying and we have encouraging reports of a lot of public movement," said Kansal. 

"The endeavour is to make at least half of the exchanges in the Valley functional by today evening and by tomorrow evening, all of the exchanges, barring few in the vulnerable areas, would be made functional," he added. 

However, later in the evening, clashes broke out between groups of youth and security forces in several places, leading to the re-imposition of the curbs.

Protests took place at six places in the Valley in which eight persons suffered injuries, Kansal said on Saturday evening.

The government had earlier said that it will lift restrictions imposed in Jammu and Kashmir in a phased and gradual manner. The restrictions were placed in the wake of abrogation of Article 370 that granted special status to the state. 

"Keeping in view the evolving situation and cooperation of people, we are now taking measures to ease the restrictions in a gradual calibrated manner after the reports that today's (Friday's) prayers have gone quite peacefully. There would be easing of restrictions in the next few days in an orderly manner and restriction on movement would be removed area by area," news agency ANI had quoted J&K Chief Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam as saying.