Geelani, Mirwaiz held for defying house arrest

leaders Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umer Farooq were on Friday detained after they defied house arrest, while Yasin Malik was held for trying to take out a march in Shopian town against civilian killings in the Kashmir Valley.

Immediately after the arrest of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front leader, clashes erupted inShopianbetweenstone-pelting youths and security forces. The separatist Joint Resistance Leadership headed by Hurriyat leaders Geelani, Umer Farooq and Malik had called for a protest march to express solidarity with the families of the five civilians killed in Shopian.

Authorities had imposed restrictions in Srinagar and Shopian to foil the protest. Prohibitory orders banning the assembly of five or more people were clamped in Rainawari, Nowhatta, MR Gunj, Safakadal, Khanyar, Maisuma and Kralkhud in Srinagar. Similar restrictions were also imposed in Shopian town. Umer Farooq defied his house arrest when he came out of his Nigeen residence in Srinagar

SRINAGAR:Separatist

A court here on Friday accepted framing of terror charges against Pakistan-based terrorist leaders Hafiz Saeed and Syed Salahuddin and seven Kashmiri separatist leaders, accused of sponsoring and stoking terror in Jammu and Kashmir.

After taking cognisance of a NIA charge sheet, Judge Tarun Sahrawat directed the probe agency to supply the copies of the

to march to Shopian. Police detained him and shifted him to a police station. Geelani, who has been detained in his house for nearly one year, also came out of his uptown Hyderpora residence to move towards Shopian.

Mobile internet services have also been suspended in parts of south Kashmir while train services have been stopped due to security reasons, they said.

Leader of Opposition in Jammu and Kashmir Assembly charge sheet to the accused.

The court listed the matter for a March 8 hearing.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on January 18 filed charges under stringent anti-terror laws against the jailed separatist leaders for allegedly conspiring with Saeed and Salahuddin to wage war against India and secede Jammu and Kashmir.

IANS

NEW DELHI:

Omar Abdullah on Friday demanded the constitution of a special investigation team (SIT) to probe the killings of three people in firing by security forces when a convoy was attacked by stone-pelters in Shopian district.

“It will be my humble request to you to constitute high-level SIT to probe both the FIRs (in Shopian incident). Please give orders to set up a high-level SIT and leave it to them to investigate,” Omar said in Assembly.