Geelani associates shifted to Jammu jail

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Srinagar, Apr 30 (UNI) Three close associates of breakaway Hurriyat Conference chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani, arrested under the Public Safety Act (PSA), were today shifted to Kot Bhalwal jail in Jammu.

However, acting Hurriyat chairman Ghulam Nabi Sumjhi, also arrested under the PSA, has been admitted to a police hospital here after he developed several medical complications.

Under the PSA, the separatist leaders will have to undergo a minimum two-year imprisonment.

The three Hurriyat leaders -- Masarat Alam, Firdous Ahmed Shah and Mohammad Shafi Lone -- were shifted to the Jammu jail.

The separatist amalgam had filed an appeal in the court, seeking a stay on the transfer of Mr Sumjhi to Kot Bhalwal jail in view of his deteriorating health condition.

In their report, the doctors had also suggested that Mr Sumjhi was not physically fit to undergo any imprisonment.

The lawyers, appearing on behalf of the Hurriyat leaders, pleaded that Mr Sumjhi was also not in a position to undertake any sort of travel and as such should not be shifted to the Jammu jail.

The four senior Hurriyat leaders were detained under sections 13 and 18 of the Unlawful Activities Act on April 26, minutes before they were to address a news conference here.

Police later arrested two more Hurriyat leaders -- Mohammad Yaseen Attaie and Meraj-ud-din Kalwal -- and booked them under the Unlawful Activities Act.

The bail pleas of the six Hurriyat leaders had come up for hearing in the court of First Munsiff R K Dubey here on April 28.

The judge had refused bail to the separatists and remanded them in the central jail here till Monday.

Police had lodged an FIR, number 70/2007, at the Safa Kadal police station against Mr Geelani and others for allegedly raising anti-India slogans at a rally organised here on April 22.

The public meeting was held to accord a warm welcome to the ailing firebrand leader on his return from New Delhi where he was recuperating following his kidney surgery at Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital in Mumbai on March 26.

A section of the media had reported that militants belonging to the Lashkar-e-Toiba and the Hizbul Mujahideen were present in the public meeting at Eidgah. It was alleged that the flags of the two militant outfits were also raised at the rally.

However, both police and the Geelani-led Hurriyat Conference denied the charges.

UNI

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