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| Detained separatist leaders may be released before Eid | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, July 30: Indications are that the state Government will start reviewing the cases of such separatist leaders as were detained during ongoing turmoil. Their release may take place before the Eid celebrations. Official sources said that the exercise may be started shortly. According to these sources, cases of stone throwing detinues, too, would be reviewed, and those having no links with the militants may also be released.
These steps are initiated to promote better security environment in Kashmir. Reports said that parents and relations of several hundred arrested youths have been approaching the leaders of the ruling coalition and senior government functionaries for their intervention so that their wards were able to celebrate the Eid festival with the members of their families.
Sources said that the Government wishes to impress upon the protesters that notwithstanding their disruptive activities the administration was taking a lenient view of their fault. In regard to the release of the separatists, the Government is under pressure from various quarters to consider revocation of the PSA against senior Hurriyat leaders. Supporters of their release argue that in the absence of the guidance from senior Hurriyat leadership, the junior cadres feel themselves at liberty to goad the people to go on strikes and shutdowns, all to the discomfiture of civil society.
Reports say that it was the result of absence of senior separatist leaders from the scene that mischief mongers attacked a Sikh boy in Tral with the purpose of kicking up communal strife. Had senior separatist leaders been guiding the movement the Tral incident would not have taken place.
After the Government announced setting up of a two-member judicial commission for probing into the killings of 17 youths in police firing, followed by the release of the separatists and the stone throwers, there hardly remains a reason for anti-national and anti-social elements to incite people to violence. Insiders say that a major section of people in the Kashmir valley is fed up with the prolonged spell of curfew restrictions and shutdowns. Once the arrested boys and the Hurriyat leaders are released, miscreants could be pressurized by the people to abandon the cult of violence.
Meanwhile, a senior police officer said that the exercise on reviewing cases of detained separatist leaders had not been yet started. Replying to a question he said, “We have to wait and watch. We have to make sure that stone throwers and separatists do not incite disturbance before they are released
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