SRINAGAR: Indian authorities detained dozens of Kashmiri activists and placed separatist leaders under house arrest on Thursday to prevent them from holding anti-India protests to mark the anniversary of a top separatist leader’s hanging more than three decades ago. Shops and businesses remained shut and a curfew was in effect in some areas of Srinagar, the main city in Kashmir, after a strike was called by separatists. Most people stayed indoors while hundreds of armed police and paramilitary soldiers patrolled largely deserted streets blocked by razor wire and barricades. Government forces “came in the morning and ordered us to stay indoors,” resident Reyaz Ahmed said.Pro-independence leader Mohammed Maqbool Butt was hanged in a New Delhi jail in 1984 after being convicted of killing an Indian intelligence officer.