SRINAGAR: In a significant development, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court has ruled in favor of quashing the detention of a South Kashmir student under the controversial Public Safety Act (PSA).
SRINAGAR: In a significant development, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court has ruled in favor of quashing the detention of a South Kashmir student under the controversial Public Safety Act (PSA).
Court Quashes Detention Of Sopore Youth Under Public Safety Act
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir High Court has quashed the detention of a north Kashmir youth under Public Safety Act.
Tawseef Ahmed Najar son of Ghulam Muhammad Najar, a resident of Brat Kalan Sopore had been arrested by police in Sopore a month after the abrogation of Special Status of Jammu and Kashmir in 2019 on charges of stone-pelting and was lodged at police station Bomai. He was shifted to Bhaderwah Jail after PSA was slapped upon him.
The detenue was doing job in a private firm when he was arrested. He was accused of instigating people for violence.
Indian police arrest 3 youths in Kashmir
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February 7, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Indian police have arrested three more youths in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Saturday.
The police, along with Indian troops and paramilitary personnel, arrested the youths in the Hajin area of the district and labelled them “over-ground workers” collaborating with Kashmiri fighters, the Kashmir Media Service reported.
The youths were identified as Bashir Ahmed Mir, Irfan Ahmed Butt and Hilal Ahmed Parray all residents of Hajin.
Meanwhile, occupied Jammu and Kashmir’s High Court ordered the release of a Kashmiri youth lodged at the Agra Jail of Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The court of Justice Rajesh Oswal issued this directive after annulling the detention of the Kashmiri youth, Nazir Ahmed Tantray, under draconian law, Public Safety Act. Advocate Bashir Ahmed Tak who represented the detained youth told media that Indian police had arrested Tantray, a fruit vendor by professio