Indian troops clamped tight restrictions on mosques across Kashmir for today's Eid al-Adha festival, fearing anti-government protests over the stripping of the Muslim-majority region's autonomy.

The Himalayan region's biggest mosque, the Jama Masjid, was ordered shut and people were only allowed to pray in smaller local mosques so that no big crowds could gather, witnesses said.

Kashmir police chief Dilbagh Singh said late Monday 'Eid celebrations were peaceful today' adding: 'There was a stray protest in Srinagar but nothing major.'

Another official said there had been no shots fired anywhere in the kashmir Valley during the day - despite heightened tensions that have sparked a war of words between nuclear rivals India and Pakistan.

Meanwhile, India's Ministry of Electronic and Information Technology has written to Twitter to suspend a series of accounts supposedly spreading 'unverified' and 'malicious' content about situation in Kashmir.

Indian troops clamped tight restrictions on mosques across Kashmir for today's Eid al-Adha festival, fearing anti-government protests over the stripping of the Muslim-majority region's autonomy. Pictured: A protest in Srinagar today

Kashmiris walk past a blockade put up by residents to prevent security personnel from sealing a mosque ground ahead of the Eid-al-Adha prayers today

A source told Hindustan Times that officials wanted the accounts suspended for their 'anti-India rants'.

It came as Indian security officials rubbished a journalist's claims that a Muslim Kashmiri policeman had shot and killed five Indian police officers in a 'blue on blue' attack.

The Central Reserve Police Force refuted the claims by Pakistani journalist Wajahat Saeed Khan, calling it 'baseless and untrue'.

Rohit Kansal, the principal secretary in the Jammu and Kashmir administration, said not a single bullet has been fired by the security forces in the Kashmir Valley on Monday - nor had there been any casualty.

'There have been some reports in the media about firing by security agencies and deaths. The police carried out a detailed briefing and I would like to reiterate and categorically deny that any firing incident has happened in Jammu and Kashmir,' he said.

Regional inspector general of police Swayam Prakash Pani said that 'there is only a couple of injuries which were reported, otherwise the entire valley, the situation is normal'.

Kashmir has been in a security lockdown for eight days as the Hindu nationalist government in New Delhi seeks to snuff out opposition to its move to impose tighter central control over the region.

Internet and phone communications have been cut and tens of thousands of troop reinforcements have flooded the main city of Srinagar and other towns and villages in the Kashmir Valley.

Authorities had eased restrictions temporarily on Sunday to let residents buy food and supplies for Eid, one of the most important Muslim festivals of the year.

Pakistan is said to be sending JF-17 jets to Skardu airport amid simmering tensions with India

Security was tightened after sporadic protests involving hundreds of people during the day, residents said. Police vans toured the streets late Sunday telling people to stay indoors

But security was tightened again after sporadic protests involving hundreds of people during the day, residents said. Police vans toured the streets late Sunday telling people to stay indoors.

'I can't believe we are forced to be in our homes on this festival. This is the festival of joy and happiness,' resident Shanawaz Shah told AFP.

Earlier, it was claimed that Pakistan was preparing to deploy fighter jets close to Indian-administered Kashmir after Prime Minister Imran Khan slammed Delhi's 'Nazi' tactics in the troubled region.

'Three C-130 transport aircraft of the Pakistan Air Force were used on Saturday to ferry equipment to their Skardu air base opposite the Union Territory of Ladakh.

'The Indian agencies concerned are keeping a close eye on the on the movement of Pakistanis along the border areas,' government sources told ANI, adding that Islamabad is most likely to move in their JF-17 fighter planes.

The clampdown continued as the nation's richest man Mukesh Ambani said at Reliance's annual general meeting in Mumbai Monday that his firm would heed Modi's call for private investment in Kashmir, with announcements to be made in the coming days, Indian media reported.

Indian troops clamped down on mosques in Kashmir fearing anti-government protests. Pictured: Indian guards watch a Muslim man walking past in Jammu today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi insisted last week the decision to strip Kashmir of its autonomy was necessary for its economic development, and to stop 'terrorism'.

Residents said the security crackdown had made them too fearful to celebrate.

A sheep trader at a Srinagar market, who gave his name as Maqbool, said the number of people buying animals for traditional feasts was sharply lower and he had gone from 'huge profits' last year to a 'big loss' this time.

Several thousand people took part in one rally after Friday prayers that was broken up with tear gas and shotgun pellets, residents said. But authorities denied there was any protest.

Modi has said the changes would bring peace and prosperity to a region blighted by a decades-old insurgency against Indian rule that has left tens of thousands dead.

Kashmir has been in a security lockdown for eight days as the Hindu nationalist government in New Delhi seeks to snuff out opposition to its move to impose tighter central control over the region

He has won widespread backing in India for the move.

But local Kashmir leaders say that stripping the region of its autonomy risks worsening the unrest.

Many local political leaders have been detained and Indian media reports said some had been taken to detention centres outside the state.

The move has also sparked fury in Pakistan, which also claims Kashmir.

The neighbours have fought two wars over the Himalayan region which they split after their independence in 1947.

In a series of tweets on Sunday, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan compared India's tactics in Kashmir to those of the Nazis.

Khan said the 'ideology of Hindu Supremacy, like the Nazi Aryan Supremacy, will not stop' in Kashmir.

Officials said Khan would visit the Pakistan-controlled part of Kashmir this week to show solidarity.

Pakistan has already expelled the Indian ambassador, halted what little bilateral trade exists and suspended cross-border transport in protest at New Delhi's move on Kashmir.