Srinagar: Chairman All Parties Hurriyat Conference Sayed Ali Geelani is continuously under the house detention and today on 29 August, he was 20th time denied the permission to offer the Friday congregational prayers.
According to a statement the organizers of the book fair which is being held in Srinagar and the participant book sellers, who belong to different states of India, yesterday came to meet Geelani at his residence and on that occasion they asked many questions regarding the historical perspective of the Kashmir Issue and the present situation.
Hurriyat (G) spokesman Ayaz Akbar said that today additional police force was deployed at the main gate of the residence of Geelani , who stopped many people including press related persons to meet the hurriyat chairman.
From 16th April of this year, Geelani has neither been allowed to offer Friday prayers and nor has been he allowed to visit any relative. Spokesman said that today after a long time when Geelani came out of his residence to examine the Milli Trust board, all the police personals got alert and started to making plans to stop him, doubting that he might offer the Friday prayers in any nearby Masjid, but the pro-freedom leader after examining the board, returned back to home and police personals got relaxed. Spokesman said that some days back the chairman of the Kashmir Committee Ram Jaithmallani came to meet Geelani and he termed his house arrest as illegal. Before this Ram Villas Paswan and many other Indian politicians also talked for raising their voices against this, but this lawlessness is still going on. According to the hurriyat spokesman, a large delegation of the organizers and the book sellers of the ongoing book fair which is being held at Kashmir Hat Srinagar, came to Hyderpora to meet Geelani and held a long meeting with the pro-freedom leader of Kashmir during which they asked many questions about the reality of the Kashmir dispute.
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