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Early Times Report
srinagar, June 15: The state government on Wednesday intensified the crackdown on separatists here as Hurriyat- G Chairman Syed Ali Geelani called for more protests in the coming days.
While Friday is considered to be a sensitive day in Kashmir, Geelani called for post-prayer protests, this time against the killing of a militant in Kud area, who hailed from Bemina locality here.
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, Chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik was taken into preventive custody early this morning and shifted to Kothi Bagh police station ahead of the protest sit-in call for the day by the separatist leadership.
The Hurriyat M Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and his close aide, ShahidUl Islam have been put under house arrest. Geelani and his lieutenant Shabir Shah are also under house arrest at their respective residences.
On the other hand scores of Hurriyat G leaders and activists were taken into preventive custody this afternoon when they tried a sit in protest, even as the police deployment across the City was beefed up in the wake of inputs of violence.
A senior police official said there were intelligence inputs that the separatists would incite violence ahead of the bye-polls in Anantnag, where Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti is schedule to try her luck to replace her father as representative of the constituency. "These forces are hell bent to keep the pot of violence on boil so we had to take preventive measures," a police official told Early Times.
The Hurriyat (G) Chairman Wednesday "appealed for protests after Friday prayers against the cold-blooded murder of the Bemina youth Tanveer Sultan Sheikh".
Tanveer, according to the government, died in a shootout with police and paramilitary forces in Kud area of Udhampur on Monday.
But in a statement, Geelani said "it has been proven now that the police story regarding the Udhampur episode is baseless and completely wrong and the reality is that the said Kashmiri youth was not only having no links with the armed struggle but he was a disabled person who was killed without committing any crime."
"We usually observe shutdown to register our protest against these kinds of tragedies but in the view of holy month of Ramadan this option was not adopted," said Geelani.
Meanwhile Geelani said the "continuous restriction over the peaceful political activities in the Jammu & Kashmir is a very dangerous trend which will have very serious consequences." |
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