Srinagar, Sep 13 (ANI): The Chairman of separatist All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC), Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was placed under house arrest by the Srinagar police in Jammu and Kashmir. Earlier, the administration obligated him from holding a press conference on the recent incident of violence in Shopian town of the valley. Although a posse of security personnel was deployed outside Farooq's residence, he attempted to talk to mediapersons by standing on an elevated area in his house. Meanwhile a shutdown call was declared by hardliner Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani to protest against the repeated human rights violations in the state.