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ISLAMABAD, APP): The Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation
Front (JKLF), Muhammad Yasin Malik has been arrested for a 29 year-old
concocted case registered against him during a public meeting organized by the then Muslim United Front (MUF) in 1987.
Muhammad Yasin Malik was arrested by Indian police and was shifted to
central jail in Srinagar. A statement issued by JKLF said, after the brutal
use of force, the police arrested Malik and he was immediately shifted to
Shergadi police station,Kashmir Media Service reported.
He was kept without water food and medicine and no one was allowed to
keep him. At evening he was shifted to Srinagar jail without taking him to any court or presenting him before any magistrate.
He has been arrested for a 29 year-old case registered against him
during Muslim United Front (MUF) rally in 1987.
JKLF Vice Chairman advocate Bashir Ahmad Butt while strongly condemning
the illegal detention of Muhammad Yasin Malik and the reign of terror
unleashed by police in Maisuma and adjacent areas, said that the way police
had declared a war against Yasin Malik, his family and whole Maisuma locality showed the level of frustration of rulers and their police.
Bashir Ahmad Butt said that Mehbooba Mufti and her party had been using
MUF election rigging card for their politics from a long time.
Recently in so-called Kashmir assembly this lady racked up the issue of Indian rigging in 1987 elections and said that if MUF had been given a chance to win, conditions in Jammu Kashmir would have been normal.
“But today the same lady has used the same election and a case
registered against same MUF to jail JKLF chairman.”