According to officials, security forces also detained 40 of the near-400 strong Muharram gathering in Srinagar, said Feroz Ahmed, a local police officer.
Large public gatherings have been banned in Indian-held Kashmir for the past 18 years because of security concerns.
On Saturday evening, the police placed a Shia cleric Maulana Abbas Ansari under house arrest. Maulana Ansari is a senior leader of the All-Parties Hurriyat Conference. “It is interference in religious matters. I don't understand why the government is not allowing us to perform our religious duties,” Maulana Ansari said.—AP