IN PICS | Clashes Erupt In Parts Of Srinagar Amid Strike Over Yasin Malik Sentencing

Security personnel chase away protesters during a protest, ahead of JKLF chief Mohammad Yasin Maliks sentencing in a terror case by a special NIA court in Delhi, at Maisuma in Srinagar, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court sentenced Malik to life imprisonment in a terror funding case. (Image: PTI)

Clashes erupted between supporters of JKLF chairman Yasin Malik and security forces in Maisuma locality here on Wednesday, even as parts of the city observed a spontaneous shutdown ahead of a court's verdict on the quantum of sentence for Malik. (Image: PTI)

Scores of people, including women, assembled at Malik's residence at Maisuma, a short distance from Lal Chowk city centre, and raised slogans in support of the separatist leader, the officials said, adding that the protesters took out a protest march around the area. (Image: PTI)

The protesters tried to move towards Maisuma Chowk and clashed with security forces, they said. Some of the protesters pelted stones on the security forces, who fired teargas shells to disperse the crowd, the officials said. (Image: PTI)

However, there were no reports of any injury. Most of the shops and business establishments in Maisuma and adjoining areas, including some shops at Lal Chowk, were shut. (Image: PTI)

According to the officials, shops in some areas of the old city have also been shut, but the public transport is plying normally. Security forces have been deployed in strength in the city to avoid any law and order problems. (Image: PTI)

Security forces have been deployed in strength in various parts of Srinagar to avoid any law and order problems. Shops in some areas of the old city here were also shut, however, public transport was plying normally. (Image: PTI)

Malik, the chief of banned JKLF, was on May 19 convicted by a Delhi court under the stringent anti-terror law in a case related to funding of terror activities in Jammu and Kashmir, after he pleaded guilty to all charges framed against him. (Image: PTI)

Meanwhile, Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) on Wednesday termed unfortunate the life imprisonment awarded to Kashmiri separatist leader. (Image: PTI)

Activists of Shiv Sena Dogra Front play drums during a celebration ahead of the sentencing of Malik. (Image: PTI)