Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik detained in wake of the SC  hearing on Article 35A
Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik detained in wake of the SC hearing on Article 35A
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Srinagar: On Friday night, Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front chief and Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik was detained by the police from his residence in Srinagar in wake of the hearing on Article 35A in Supreme Court, which is likely to take place on Monday. The police arrested him from his residence in Maisuma area of Srinagar and put him up in the Kothibagh Police Station. His detention comes just a couple of days ahead of the likely hearing of Article 35A in the Supreme Court on February 25. The provision included in the Indian Constitution in 1954 grants special rights and privileges to the people of Jammu and Kashmir.

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Last week, the Jammu and Kashmir administration decided to withdraw security covers of five separatist leaders. "No security cover will be provided under any pretext to these five leaders and other separatists," officials said. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Shabir Shah, Hashim Qureshi, Bilal Lone and Abdul Ghani Bhat are the five separatist leaders whose security has been withdrawn. However, the name of pro-Pakistan separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani does not feature in the list. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh had said during his visit to the Valley after a dastardly terror attack by  Pakistani terrorists killed Indian security forces on February 14 that “Some elements in Jammu and Kashmir have links with the ISI (in Pakistan) and terrorist organisations. Their security should be reviewed,”.

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Banned Pakistani terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed carried out a brutal attack that killed 40 CRPF jawans in Awantipora area of Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district. The attack took place around 3:30 pm after a suicide bomber, identified as local boy Adil Ahmad Dar, in a Mahindra Scorpio car loaded with 350 kilograms of explosives rammed into a convoy of 78 vehicles carrying over 2500 CRPF personnel on the Srinagar-Jammu Highway.

 

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