SRINAGAR: Curfew imposed in violence-hit Jammu four days ago was lifted for three hours in parts of the city on Monday. The relaxation period passed off peacefully but the curfew was re-imposed in these areas “as a precautionary measure”, the officials said.

Parts of Jammu, the winter capital of restive Jammu and Kashmir, had erupted on Friday with irate crowds torching dozens of cars and other vehicles owned by the minority Muslim community during a shutdown called by the Jammu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI) against the terror attack in Pulwama district.

Despite the imposition of curfew, the city had witnessed protests and sporadic violence also at the weekend. While activists of some Hindu outfits held massive anti-Pakistan protests across the city and indulged in stone pelting on the properties of local and Kashmiri Muslims. The exercise they repeated on Saturday. Their rivals had countered them by chanting pro-Pakistan slogans and hurling stones at them at a couple of places, the witnesses said.

The police and other security forces too came under stone pelting.