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15 Muslim League activits arrested in Kashmir
Srinagar,
Sept
9:
About
15
activists
of
the
Muslim
League
here
were
taken
into
preventive
custody
for
violating
prohibitory
orders.
Official
sources
said
that
a
group
of
League
leaders
and
other
activists
took
to
the
streets
in
the
city
today
to
protest
the
killing
of
two
of
its
members
in
an
alleged
fake
encounter
at
Pulwama
in
south
Kashmir
on
August
31.
Demanding action against the security forces for killing them, the processonists marched through different streets. However, they were taken into preventive custody at Tankipora, near here.
The chairman of the League, Masarat Alam, said Abdul Rashid and Mushtaq Ahmad Zargar were heading home after attending the party meeting when they were arrested by security forces.
He alleged that both were later killed in a fake encounter and labelled as militants.
Mr Alam said that Zaragar, district commander of the League, had written a letter to President A P J Abdul Kalam and the Chief Justice of India in which he had alleged that he was being harassed by the senior security force officer.
Later, on the directions of the Chief Justice of India, sessions judge, Poonch, was appointed to probe the allegations of Zargar, he said and added that Zargar was being pressurised to withdraw the case and was even offered money by the officer.
UNI
