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| Police arrest separatist leaders from city centre, no protests thereafter | | Manhunt launched to nab JKLF leaders, activists | | Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, Feb 6: Police arrested three top separatist leaders along with some of their workers and supporters in the Lal Chowk area here in the city centre. The leaders were coming out of a local hotel after addressing a seminar.
This afternoon separatist leaders Shabir Ahmad Shah, Nayeem Ahmad Khan and Mushtaq-ul-Islam were arrested by the police and whisked away to the nearby Kothi Bagh police station. The separatist leaders had earlier addressed a seminar that witnessed vociferous sloganeering from some of the participants.
While the separatist leaders were delivering speeches their supporters and activists stood up and raised highly provocative slogans. This caught the attention of the police personnel who had already been deputed outside the venue of the seminar. The police personnel allowed the seminar to be completed and once it was over the separatist leaders were taken into custody.
During the seminar the situation went out of control at many times and it seemed that the separatist leaders along with their supporters and activists would come out and lodge strong protests in the main Lal Chowk. In the past it has been observed that separatist leaders have failed to keep the emotions of their supporters and activists in control with the latter taking law & order into their own hands.Police has been found wanting on most of the occasions but that was not to be today. Police personnel swung into action and whisked away the separatist along with some of their supporters and their activists. The arrest of separatist leaders did not lead to any trouble in the city centre and the activities carried out smoothly. It would be in place to mention here that Shah and Khan had recently parted ways Hurriyat Conference headed by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq. They along with another separatist leader Mohammad Azam Inquilabi created a separate amalgam in the name of Hurriyat Conference Jammu Kashmir (HCJK). The separated separatist leaders accused Mirwaiz of hijacking the Hurriyat platform and using it for his own means. Meanwhile, Jammu & Kashmir Police has launched a manhunt to nab the leaders and activists of Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front as the outfit has framed a programme to carry out a protest march from Maisuma to Lal Chowk on February 9. The day coincides with the first death anniversary of parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guroo. Sources said that police personnel carried out raids and crackdown at the residence of JKLF leaders in order to arrest them and sabotage the February 9 programme. In the past since JKLF leaders have given police slip the authorities are not taking any chance and they are on look out for the Front leaders and activists. |
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