BJP and its youth wing, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha workers on Friday scaled police barricades during a protest march towards the Civil Secretariat in Jammu. Pics/PTI

Thousands of devotees gathered at the revered Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar to offer special prayers marking the martyrdom anniversary of Hazrat Ali on the 21st day of Ramzan. The head priest displayed the holy relic, Moi-e-Muqqadas, believed to be a hair of the Prophet Muhammad, as devotees thronged the shrine in large numbers to seek blessings and pay their respects on this deeply significant occasion in the Islamic calendar (Pics/PTI)