The Jammu bandh, in its third day, today saw violence in some areas of the city and a brief detention of a Congress leader along with some party colleagues agitating for the demand for setting up of an AIIMS.

Some youth, participating the agitation being spearheaded by a conglomerate of 70 organisations, pelted stones at police in Purani Mandi area of old city this afternoon, police said.

Police resorted to minor tear gas shelling to disperse the stone-pelting youth. "The situation was brought under control," a police officer said, adding no one was injured.

Business establishments, market places and shop remained closed generally and public transport was off the roads in view of the 72-hour bandh call given by the AIIMS Coordination Committee which is spearheading the agitation for an AIIMS in Jammu. The bandh began on Friday morning.

Protesters blocked the highway and various roads in the city by burning tyres, police sources said. Congress workers led by the state unit's senior Vice President Sham Lal Sharma took out a march in support of AIIMS demand, defying restrictions under 144 CrPc in Bakshinagar area today.

The police prevented them from moving ahead and detained Sharma, a former minister in the state, along with 16 other party colleagues at Bakshinagar police station.