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Early Times Report
srinagar, Apr 5: Teenager Faizan Rafiq, whose detention under the Public Safety Act (PSA) for his alleged involvement in stone-pelting had created furore in Jammu and Kashmir, was today released from a jail in Kathua district.
"Faizan was released at around 1 pm. Home Secretary had conveyed the order to jail authorities yesterday at 5.30 pm," Rafiq Ahmad Hakeem, the father of the boy, told a news agency over phone from Kathua. Faizan was arrested earlier this year for his alleged involvement in stone-pelting during the last year's unrest.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday had ordered release of Faizan on humanitarian grounds following criticism from opposition parties, separatists and human rights groups. Global human rights group Amnesty International had launched 'Free Faizan' campaign.
Hakeem said that he was grateful to the Chief Minister, who ordered his son's release, and all others, including Amnesty and media groups, who campaigned for it. "I am very thankful to the Chief Minister for the release of my son," he added.
Faizan's detention under PSA had generated a controversy as his family had produced birth certificate which claimed that he was only 14-years-old and could not be detained under the law as the minimum age prescribed in it was 16 years. However, the Chief Minister ordered a medical test to ascertain the age of the boy and he was found out to be at least 17-years-old.
"That's where the problem is because under law he isn't minor which is why it's being considered for a humanitarian (POV) point of view," Omar had tweeted on Sunday. |
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