Life remained paralysed in the Kashmir Valley and Muslim majority areas of Jammu region on Friday due to a daylong general strike called by the breakaway Hurriyat Conference against the arrest of its chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani. Shops and business establishments were closed and traffic was off the roads. Work in government offices including the secretariat and semi government offices was also affected due to the strike. The educational institutions wore a deserted look. Geelani was arrested when he was heading for Poonch to address a public meeting and later moved to a Jammu jail after a local court remanded him in police custody until June 29. He was charged with sedition by a court in Poonch five years after an arrest warrant was issued against him for "inciting people against the Indian state and triggering communalism while making a series of provocative speeches" in 2001.