Geelani’s family booked for ‘wrapping his body in Pak flag’
Case registered by Budgam police after a video, purportedly showing Pak flag placed over the body, started doing the rounds on social media
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir police has registered a case against the family members of senior separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani and an unidentified person for allegedly raising “anti-india” slogans and wrapping Pakistan’s flag over the separatist leader’s body soon after his death.
Geelani, 91, passed away on Wednesday night.
Family members had alleged that the body of the leader was snatched by the police and buried at a local graveyard in their absence.police, however, refuted the claims.
The Budgam police registered the case after a video, purportedly showing Pakistan’s flag placed over Geelani’s body, started doing the rounds of social media.
However, as the police moved in to take over the body, the late separatist leader’s aides removed the flag, it was claimed.
Mehbooba terms action ‘ruthless’
Former J&K chief minister and PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday said that booking
Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s family members under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act shows the ruthlessness of the Indian government.
Mufti said that Kashmir has been turned into an “open-air prison by the central government.
“Having turned Kashmir into an open-air prison, now even the dead aren’t spared. A family isn’t allowed to mourn & bid a final farewell as per their wishes. Booking Geelani sahab’s family under UAPA shows GOI’S deep rooted paranoia & ruthlessness. This is New India’s Naya Kashmir,” she tweeted.
Earlier, the former J&K chief minister had hit out at government over the restrictions imposed following Geelani’s death and said that such measures create a sense of subjugation.
“GOI’S dubious claims that people of J&K now enjoy equal rights is a barefaced lie as the truth is that even their basic human rights dead or alive are suspended with pervasive impunity,” Mufti had said in a tweet.