Mum: Bandhs, protests galore over Pulwama attack

Mumbai | Saturday | 16th February, 2019

Summary:

MUMBAI: As the biers of Pulwama's martyred jawans were wrapped in the tricolour and their pyres lit Saturday, anger simmered in the streets of Mumbai and surrounding areas like Thane and Kalyan. Around 1,000 scholars of SIES College observed two minutes' silence. But few were met with protestations given the magnitude of the tragedy.Heavy police bandobast and nakabandi was visible throughout Mumbai. Amjad Khan, a mobile shop owner in Madanpura, said, "The entire nation stands as one with the families of our martyred soldiers. No untoward incident was reported.Shops were shut in Muslim-dominated areas like Dongri, Bhendi Bazaar, Null Bazar, Nagpada and Madanpura in South and Central Mumbai..