Srinagar: Senior Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leader Noor Mohammad Kalwal was today released after six month detention.
However, there was no relief for chairman of hardline Hurriyat Conference (HC) and Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) head Shabir Ahmad Shah who are under house arrest.
Kalwal was arrested on August 7 under Public Safety Act (PSA) and shifted to Kotbalwal jail, Jammu.
However, JKLF leader challenged his detention under PSA and the court quashed his detention and ordered his release on January 5, 2017. Kalwal was later shifted here and lodged in police station Rajbagh from where he was released today.
Mr Geelani remained under house since his return from New Delhi in May last year. Security forces and state police personnel remained deployed outside his Hyderpora residence to prevent him from moving out. However, in between the amalgam chairman defied restrictions and was arrested several times only to release him in the evening every time.
General secretary of the hardline HC Shabir Shah, who was released only recently, has been put under house arrest.
A spokesman of the HC said another senior separatist leader Mohammad Ashraf Sehrayee also remained under house arrest.
He said dozens of leaders and activists of the HC remained lodged in different jails and police stations in the valley since July 9, a day after Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani and two other militants were killed in an encounter in Anantnag.
He said during the past 24 hours over a dozen leaders and activists of hardline Hurriyat Conference (HC) were arrested by Jammu and Kashmir police.
Meanwhile, police has declared a senior leader of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat (TeH), a constituent of HC headed by Mr Syed Ali Shah Geelani Mohammad Yousuf Mir a pro-claimed offender as he was evading arrest for the past six months.
Officials sources said police this afternoon arrested Tehsil president, Anantnag, Ashiq Hussain Narchoor when he was going to general bus stand after offering Friday prayers.
A spokesman of the TeH strongly condemned the arrest of Ashiq and said he was just a political worker and his activities were not in any way unconstitutional.
He said over a dozen others were arrested in Sopore in north Kashmir.
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