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Don't release detainees in ad-hoc manner: Vajpayee to Sayeed

Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Saturday suggested the People's Democratic Party-led government in Jammu and Kashmir should appoint a committee to screen cases against people under detention and not release them in an ad hoc manner.

Asked about the release of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front leader Yasin Malik and others from custody, he said that these decisions related to the Mufti Mohammed Sayeed government.

Meanwhile, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference said the Mufti Mohammed government's claim that JKLF vice-chairman Bashir Ahmad Bhat and Hurriyat leader Sheikh Abdul Rashid have been released is 'false'. "The two leaders are lodged at the Joint Interrogation Centre in Talab Tillo in Jammu where they were brought after being released from Kot Balwal jail," a Hurriyat spokesman claimed.

The spokesman alleged Syed Ali Shah Geelani's son-in-law Altaf Shah was picked up on Friday night by the security agencies. "Hurriyat Conference condemns the re-arrest of people after being released by the courts. The government's claim that no one would be re-arrested after being released by courts has been exposed," he said.

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