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Yasin Malik remanded to 7 days' police custody, JKLF calls for bandh

Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Yasin Malik was on Tuesday remanded to seven days' police custody by Udhampur's chief judicial magistrate.

Malik was arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (POTO) on Monday and taken to Udhampur late in the night.

His arrest followed that of two persons carrying $100,000, allegedly meant for the JKLF chief, from near Udhampur on Sunday.

Dictating the order, the CJM also directed the principal of the Jammu medical college to constitute a team of experts to examine Malik in custody.

Malik has a record of health problems.

Meanwhile, the JKLF and the Hurriyat Conference has called for a general strike in the Kashmir valley on Wednesday to protest against the arrest.

On Tuesday, the situation in Srinagar was normal at the time this report was filed.

Meanwhile APHC chairman Abdul Gani Bhat told rediff.com from Srinagar that Malik's arrest smacked of political vendetta, adding that the manner in which the police physically removed the JKLF chief from a press conference was reprehensible.

"How can the police pick up a senior leader like Malik and bundle him into a jeep merely because someone said that the money he or she had been carrying was meant for Yasin Malik?" he asked.

"Malik has categorically denied that the money was meant for him or that he has any links with the arrested persons," he added.

According to Bhat, Malik was picked up because he had played a major role in the formation of the Hurriyat's poll panel.

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