The Jammu and Kashmir police re-arrested separatist leader Masarat Alam on Tuesday, despite a court order against his arrest, says a report in Indian Express.
The Jammu and Kashmir police re-arrested separatist leader Masarat Alam on Tuesday, despite a court order against his arrest, says a report in Indian Express.
The arrest took place allegedly 'on the gates' of Kotbalwal jail on Tuesday. The J-K High court last month had quashed Alam's detention under the Public Safety Act (PSA) and ordered the government to release him.
"He was released after we provided a copy of the High Court order to the jail authorities today," said Muslim League spokesperson Mohammed Rafiq Ganai.
"But even as he was yet to come out of the jail, a few policemen, who were already presented inside the jail, arrested him again." he claimed to Indian Express.
“We have no information about him and Police also is not telling us anything. We are worried for his safety,” he said. “Police have waged a war against the Muslim League leaders and activists. They (leaders) are being arrested and harassed by the men in uniform," he added, claiming Alam was taken to an undisclosed location.
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed led PDP-BJP government had suffered a major setback last month when the Jammu and Kashmir high court quashed the detention of Hurriyat hardliner Masarat Alam under the Public Safety Act (PSA).
Alam was arrested on April 17 two days after he shouted pro-Pakistan slogans and called for Kashmir's merger with Pakistan during a pro-Pakistan rally organised to welcome Hurriyat hawk Syed Ali Shah Geelani in which his supporters also unfurled Pakistani flags.
Alam's arrest had come just a month after he was released by Mufti government after spending almost four and half years in jail for leading 'Quit Kashmir Movement' in which 120 youth were killed mostly in the security force firing on the stone pelting mobs in 2010. The 43 year old Hurriyat hardliner was booked under PSA on April 23 and sent to Kot Bhawal jail Jammu. Under the PSA, Alam had to remain in jail without trail and bail for six months which was extendable.
Four months on, a single judge bench of Justice Hasnain Masoodi of Jammu and Kashmir high court quashed Alam's detention under the PSA.
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