The authorities placed Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, chairman of the moderate Hurriyat group, under house arrest on Wednesday to prevent him from attending a separatist` meeting over government plans to set up colony for ex-servicemen in the state.
The Mirwaiz was placed under house arrest in his uptown Nigeen residence, police said in summer capital Srinagar.
Mirwaiz Umer was scheduled to attend a separatist called meeting to discuss the strategy for what the separatists call “resisting the government plans to form a Sainik (Ex-servicemen) colony in Kashmir”.
Separatists have also called for a protest shutdown on Thursday and on post Friday prayer protests to register protest against alleged moves of the central and the state government to allot land to ex-servicemen for setting up a colony in the Valley.
Meanwhile, The Jammu and Kashmir police on Wednesday detained Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chief Yasin Malik from his office in Srinagar.
The JKLF chief was arrested from his party’s Abi Guzar area office adjacent to the city centre Lal Chowk.
“He has been taken into preventive custody and lodged in Kothi Bagh police station to maintain law and order in the city,” a senior police officer told IANS in Srinagar.
Earlier in the day, Hurriyat (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was placed under house arrest.
Mirwaiz Umer was scheduled to attend a separatist called meeting to discuss the strategy for what the separatists call “resisting the government plans to form a Sainik (Ex-servicemen) colony in Kashmir”.
Separatists have also called for a protest shutdown on Thursday and on post Friday prayer protests to register protest against alleged moves of the central and the state government to allot land to ex-servicemen for setting up Sainik and Pandit colonies in the Valley.
