Yasin Malik Arrested After J&K Police Stops Hurriyat Meet

Several leaders, including Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, were put under house arrest.

Jammu and Kashmir police detain JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik while he was going for a joint separatist meeting in Srinagar on Monday. (Photo: PTI)

On 5 June, authorities prevented separatists from holding a meeting at the residence of hardline Hurriyat Conference Chairman Syed Ali Geelani, placing several leaders, including Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, under house arrest. JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik was taken into preventive custody and lodged at a police station in Srinagar.

The National Investigative Agency (NIA) had conducted raids at the residences of separatist leaders on Sunday.

A posse of police personnel were posted outside Geelani's residence at Hyderpora, where the separatists leaders were to hold a meeting and later address a press conference, a police official said. He said no one was allowed to enter Geelani's residence.

Mirwaiz has once again been put under arrest since late last evening. He was to attend the joint resistance meeting at veteran leader Geelani’s residence on 5 June.

Hurriyat spokesman

"The anti-Kashmiri state resorted to its usual tactic of curbing the leadership, once again showing that Kashmir is ruled by the forces' might," he added. JKLF Chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik was taken into preventive custody and lodged at a police station here.

The meeting was convened by the separatists to discuss the NIA raids on several of their second rung leaders as part of the crackdown on funding street protests and businessmen suspected of carrying out hawala operations.

(With inputs from PTI and Times Now.)