ISLAMABAD,(MILLAT+APP): The Chairman of Ummat-e-Islami Jammu
Kashmir, Qazi Ahmed Yasir, in occupied Kashmir, has strongly
condemned the re-arrest of party activist and crowd-puller, Sarjan
Barkati, soon after his release from Kot Bhalwal jail in Jammu on
court orders.
Qazi Yasir in a statement issued in Srinagar said that the
court had quashed the illegal detention under draconian Public
Safety Act of Sarjan Barkati, but he was re-arrested which was
nothing but the frustration of the authorities,reported Kashmir
Media Service.
Meanwhile, Shabroza Begum, wife of Sarjan Barkati, in a
media interview said that the popularity of Barkati that brought
trouble upon him. She said that his unique oratory and stirring
words brought a new element to the folk culture of Kashmir and
appeared at almost all the major pro-freedom gatherings in Kashmir
after the martyrdom of Hizb Commander, Burhan Wani, on July 8,
last year. The police began to look for him; their house was
raided several times; the family was harassed and threatened to
make Barkati surrender to police, she said.
“The police raided our house several times. They would come
even during nights. I would be alone with my two children, as many
a time people did not allow my husband to come back home. They
kept him back as the centre of attraction in the rallies,”
Shabroza said.
She said that Indian forces ransacked her house. “In one of
the raids, I was alone in the house. They asked for my husband.
They told me that I should ask him to stop attending rallies and
raising freedom slogans. What could I do? I said he was
representing the people’s sentiment,” Shabroza said.