New Delhi, July 09: The army deployed in Kashmir valley in the wake of recent violence would go back to barracks in the “next few days”, the Centre said tonight.
“I am quite hopeful that army will be derequisitioned at the earliest. We expect that the army would go back in the next few days. I think in a very near future,” Union Home Secretary G K Pillai said.
He said so far the curfew has been holding well and there would be some relaxation from tonight till tomorrow evening because of a festival in holy Hazratbal.
The Home Secretary said the army has been requisitioned by the state government and they are currently deployed in the periphery of the city.
–Agencies