Masarat Alam released from Kathua Jail, rearrested by CID

Two days after hardline Hurriyat Conference leader Masarat Alam’s Public Safety Act (PSA) was quashed by the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, he was released from Kathua Jail around 7.30 pm today and rearrested immediately by a CID counterinsurgency team outside the prison gate. The CID team will hand over Masarat Alam to a party of the Baramulla police awaiting in Jammu. Masarat Alam was lodged in Kathua Jail after he was booked in September this year under the PSA by the Deputy Commissioner, Baramulla, for fuelling the unrest in…

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