Summary The arrested leaders were lodged in Kothi Bagh police station in Srinagar.
SRIANAGAR (Web Desk) - Indian police arrested the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik, along with other liberation leaders ahead of his proposed hunger strike at Pratap Park in Srinagar today (Tuesday) against the recent killing of youth and a 3-year-old kid in the territory.
The JKLF spokesman in a statement said that Muhammad Yasin Malik was scheduled to observe a day-long hunger strike against the court order banning beef in Indian Occupied Kashmir, however, due to incessant rains the programme couldn’t go as planned.
“We then decided to observe hunger strike at a local hotel in the city. The authorities didn’t allow us to do that,” he added.
Yasin Malik later led a protest march of JKLF activists and supporters from Aabi Guzar which was to end with a sit-in at clock tower in Srinagar. However, a contingent of Indian police stopped the protesters near Tyndale Biscoe School and arrested Yasin Malik along with thirty others party leaders and activists including Noor Muhammad Kalwal, Bashir Ahmad Butt, Showket Ahmad Bakhshi, Javed Ahmad Zargar, Bashir Kashmiri, Mir Sirajuddin, Shaikh Abdul Rasheed, Ghulam Muhammad Dar, Bashir Ahmad Rather, Muhammad Rafiq War, Muhammad Yasin Butt, Muhammad Sidiq Shah and Zakir Ahmad.
The police also took into custody APDP leader, Parveena Ahanger and Muhammad Ashraf Mattoo, the father a martyred youth, Tufail Mattoo. The arrested leaders were lodged in Kothi Bagh police station in Srinagar.
