Vice-President Hamid Ansari will address the Kashmir University convocation in Srinagar on Saturday, and ahead of that security in the university has been beefed up.
The measures were taken after an employee of the university was killed and another injured trying to make an IED bomb.
He was a militant of the Hizbul Mujahideen who had surrendered and then got a job as an electrician in Kashmir University.
The deceased was an IED-making expert. Police have no clues yet as to what for he were making the IED.
Earlier, one person was killed and four people were injured when militants hurled a grenade in the tourist hub of Dal Gate on Friday night.
Breaking a long lull in their activities in the city, the militants exploded the hand grenade at Badyari Crossing at Dal Gate at around 9 pm injuring four civilians, official sources said.
One of the injured identified as Abdul Salam, a local, succumbed in the hospital.
The separatists have called a general strike against Ansari's visit.
(With PTI inputs)
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