Jammu/Srinagar, March 27 -- Amid panic-buying of fuel, the chief minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday said that there ample stock of fuel, LPG and essential commodities and that "if people didn't refrain from panic buying, he would be compelled to shut fuel stations for the next few days."

"A meeting by the Prime Minister is being held tomorrow on the matter and I will also be attending it but my earnest request is that people stop camping outside petrol pumps. If this situation continues, I may be forced to shut all petrol pumps for the next few days until this cycle of rumours stop," he told reporters on the sidelines of a function here this evening.

The CM said that unnecessary crowding at fuel stations, despite official assurances, wo...