Shops and other businesses were shut and traffic was thin in the main city of Srinagar and other towns, as a result of the curfew and after separatist groups called a strike across the region for the anniversary.
Mohammed Afzal Guru, a Kashmiri Muslim, was executed on February 9 last year and buried inside a prison in Delhi after being convicted over a deadly raid on the Indian parliament in 2001 that left ten people dead.
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