Twelve people were arrested on Saturday as police forcibly broke up a religious procession in Srinagar to mark the birth of the Prophet Mohammed, witnesses said. Dozens of activists of the Islamic Students League (ISL) marched through Srinagar, the state's summer capital, reciting verses from the Koran and shouting pro-Islamic slogans.

They had planned to walk to Srinagar's lakeside Hazratbal mosque, which houses a hair which Muslims believe comes from the Prophet's beard, but were prevented from doing so by police as there is a ban on processions in Jammu and Kashmir.
Witnesses said when the marchers insisted on continuing they were baton-charged by the police.
A dozen of them were pulled into waiting vehicles and taken to a nearby police station. Bureau Report