Vigil up in Kashmir on Afzal Guru hanging anniversary today

February 09, 2016 09:04

Security across Kashmir Valley has been tightened and several separatist leaders including Yasin Malik and Shabir Ahmad Shah were detained or put under house arrest ahead of the third anniversary of execution of Parliament attack case convict Mohammad Afzal Guru.

The Hurriyat Conference has called a strike today on the third anniversary of hanging of Guru, and on February 11 to mark the anniversary of execution of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front founder Mohammad Maqbool Bhat.

While Guru was hanged on February 9, 2013 inside Tihar Jail in Delhi, Butt was executed on February 11, 1984.

JKLF chairman Yasin Malik, along with his party colleagues Ashraf Bin Salam, Ghulam Mohammad Dar and Mushtaq Ahmad were taken into preventive custody at Abi Guzar in the heart of the city after the outfit took out a march, officials said.

The officials said Shah, who heads Democratic Freedom Party, and several other separatist leaders were placed under house arrest in an attempt to scuttle protests.

The chairmen of rival factions of Hurriyat -- Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq -- are in Delhi while another separatist leader Nayeem Khan left for Mumbai on Monday, the officials said.

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