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Masarat Alam's detention under PSA quashed

By Mukhtar Ahmad
August 21, 2015 18:06 IST
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The Jammu and Kashmir high court on Friday quashed the detention of senior separatist leader Masarat Alam Bhat.

In April, Bhat was detained under the Public Safety Act for allegedly hoisting Pakistani flags and chanting anti-national slogans at a rally in uptown Hyderpora area to welcome the hard-line separatist leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani on his return from New Delhi.

Justice Hasnain Masoodi before whom the case was listed on Friday set aside the detention order of Masarat Alam.

Police had registered a case against several separatist leaders including Bhat and Hurriyat Conference chairman Geelani for provocative activities including hoisting of Pakistani flag. 

An FIR under sections 13 of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 120-B, 147, 341, 336, 427 RPC was registered in Budgam police station against Alam and other separatist leaders.

Alam was released in March -- soon after the Peoples Democratic Party-led government came to power -- after over four years of detention in connection with the 2010 summer agitation in the valley.

His release had created a furore across the country and the issue had even figured in the Parliament proceedings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi making a statement on the floor of the house. 

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