Less Than 1,000 In Detention In Jammu And Kashmir, 800 Of Them Are Stone-Pelters

Less than a thousand people are in detention in Jammu & Kashmir and around 800 of them are “stone-pelters”, Home Minister Amit Shah said as he defended his government’s actions with regards to the state. Shah also said there is “no curfew” Jammu and Kashmir.

Restrictions under Section 144 are imposed only in six police stations, Shah said while speaking to India Today TV, adding that situation in the state is under control with postpaid mobile phones working now.

Amit Shah said this while speaking to India Today TV in his first interview since the Narendra Modi government moved to scrap Jammu and Kashmir’s special status, accorded under Article 370. The government also moved to bifurcate the state into two Union Territories.