Sporadic violence occurred in Kashmir Valley on Sunday with mobs, protesting among other things the accord on the Amarnath land issue, indulging in clashes with police prompting authorities to re-clamp curfew in parts of Srinagar, Baramulla and Kupwara districts.

At least nine persons were injured as police fired rubber bullets and teargas shells to disperse mobs also protesting the arrest of separatist leaders, youth and highhandedness of security forces, official sources said.

They said angry youths clashed with police in Sopore township of Baramulla, Baramulla district town and Kupwara district town in protest against the signing of the accord between the Sri Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samiti amd the panel set up by Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra.

Police assisted by security forces used batons and teargas shells to disperse the protesters resulting in the injury to five persons at Ribbon village in Sopore.

In Srinagar, trouble began within minutes of the announcement of relaxation of curfew in interior parts of the city, when groups of youth took to the streets and started raising "anti-India" slogans and demanded release of arrested leaders and other youth.

Within no time, the protests which started from Rajouri Kadal spread to adjoining localities including Nowhatta, Malaratta, Saraf Kadal, Nawab Bazar, Zaldager, Nallah mar, Habbakadal and Tankipora, the sources said.

A youth identified as Irshad Ahmad Kenu was hit by a bullet in his leg, while three others were injured in baton charge at Rajouri Kadal, the sources said.

Fearing more trouble, the authorities immediately re-clamped curfew and drove people back to their homes. The agitators also clashed with security forces at Kralpora, Trehgam and Kupwara areas in Kupwara district.

Earlier, authorities had eased restrictions for varying periods in the curfew-bound areas of the Valley.

While the curfew was relaxed for three hours in all parts of Srinagar from nine am, it was relaxed in Bandipora and Pulwama from 8 am. Similarly, curfew was relaxed in Baramulla, Budgam and Kupwara districts from 10 am and Shopian, Kulgam, Ganderbal and Anantnag districts from 11 am, the sources said.

"We are monitoring the situation. Barring trouble in some parts of Srinagar and Baramulla and Kupwara town, the situation remained by and large peaceful," a police spokesman said.

Curfew was clamped in all the 10 districts of Kashmir valley on August 24 to thwart the move of Hurriyat Conference to stage a sit-in at Lal Chowk in the heart of the city.

Top leaders of both factions of Hurriyat Conference Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, Mohammad Ashraf Saharai, Shabir Ahmed Shah, Mehrajuddin Kalwal, Ayaz Akbar, JKLF chairman Mohammad Yaseen Malik, Dukhtaran-e-Millat chief Asiya Andrabi and other separatist groups have been arrested.

Meanwhile, the coordination committee of separatists has appealed to the people to register protests peacefully.

"We appeal to the people not to provoke police and troopers and protest peacefully," a spokesperson of the committee said in a statement.