Srinagar, May 13 (KNS): Chairman of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Muhammad Yasin Malik on Sunday termed the arrest of Jamat-I-Islami leader, Bashir Ahmad Lone and Tehreek Hurriyat Leader Muhammad Rafiq Shah Owaisee under PSA that too on charges of participating in funeral prayers of a martyr as ‘most deplorable’.
Malik as per the statement issued to KNS, said that earlier Baramullah Police also arrested and booked ailing JKLF deputy chief organizer Siraj Ud din Mir and JKLF district President Baramulla Abdul Rashid Magloo under PSA on the same charges.
“Stopping people from participating in funeral prayers of dead one and arresting peaceful political activists and leaders for the same actually amounts to a direct interference in religious affairs of Muslims which is highly condemnable,” asserted JKLF chairman.
“These actions of police at the orders of political masters shows the level of frustration rulers are suffering from and is also indicative of their anti-Muslim and anti-Kashmiri attitude,” Malik added.
He said that Indian army, forces and police have been mutilating the dead bodies of their victims and using gasoline to burn down properties and houses is also not new, but a ban on participation in funeral prayers and even using black Law PSA to detain those who participate in an obligatory religious affair is adding to the ugliness of Indian democracy practiced in Jammu Kashmir.
He said that those pro-India stooges who on daily basis are delivering sermons through print, electronic and social media should feel some shame of these anti-democracy and anti-people acts and should reserve some of their thoughts and condemnations for these inhuman acts too.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel
While condemning the prolonged incarceration of Hurriyat Leader Mir Hafizullah who from 2016, has been slapped with multiple PSA’s and has been languishing in different jails and police stations, Malik said that a peaceful political activist is being victimized and tortured for his political belief and activities.
The statement issued here Mir Hafizullah was slapped with PSA thrice and high court quashed PSA on him twice and his third PSA was revoked by home department on 16th march and 25th April 2018respectively but instead of respecting the court verdict and their own orders, Police is not releasing him and has been using every deceit in its possession to prolong his incarceration. After revocation of his latest PSA, he was shifted to Police station Anantnagh (Islamabad) where police has detained him on remand for some new charges.
Mir Hafizullah is ailing from multiple ailments. He is diabetic with prostate enlargement problem and lone bread owner to his family which includes four small children.
Malik while appealing ICRC and other human rights organizations to take cognizance of his prolonged incarceration and also of the miserable condition of other Kashmiri inmates, laid emphasis on the early release of Mir Hafizullah and other detunes and said that putting people in jails on false and concocted charges should be stopped and international community should realize and fulfil its obligations towards fellow human beings in Kashmir who are facing the wrath of biggest democracy known as India. (KNS)