Kashmir shrine land order revoked

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The government in Indian-administered Kashmir has formally revoked a plan to give a tract of forest land to a board that manages an important Hindu shrine, BBC reports.

The land transfer has provoked more than a week of protests by Muslims in which a fifth person was killed on Tuesday in clashes with police.

But the decision to revoke the land has angered Hindus in the Jammu region.

More than two dozen people, including five policemen, were injured when Hindu protesters clashed with police.

A meeting of the state cabinet on Tuesday, presided over by Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, decided to revoke the plan to allot land to the Amarnath shrine board.

Despite the decision, Muslims have kept up their protests. One man was killed in Kashmir's summer capital, Srinagar, in clashes in which police fired teargas shells to break up a demonstration.

The BBC's Altaf Hussain in Srinagar says the cabinet decision is expected to bring life back to normality to the Muslim-majority valley of Kashmir which shut down for the eighth consecutive day on Tuesday.