Srinagar, March 23, 2019 (PPI-OT): In occupied Kashmir, following the ban imposed by the Indian authorities on the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), the party leaders and activists are likely to face action similar to the one faced by Jamaat-e-Islami cadres in the territory recently, reported a local English daily. The daily, Greater Kashmir, quoting a police official reported that while senior leaders of JKLF are likely to face detention, its offices shall also come under the purview of the regulatory order.
“The action in days to come will be similar to that of Jamaat-e-Islami, whose members were arrested on a mass scale recently, while the offices of the socio-religious organisation and properties of its several activists were also seized after the government of India imposed a ban on it,” the official said.
“Senior leaders of JKLF are most likely to face detention,” another senior police officer told Greater Kashmir when asked about India’s possible action against the party. He said that the ban was announced on Friday evening and it would take a day or so in deciding the further action. The JKLF has been banned by the Indian government for carrying on its pro-freedom activities in occupied Kashmir.
All the offices of JKLF will now come under regulatory orders and action under norms will follow after observance of due procedures, the police official said. “Material in these offices can also be sealed and no meetings will be allowed there any longer,” he said. It is to mention here that JKLF Chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik, is already illegally detained at Kot Bhalwal Jail in Jammu after being booked under draconian law, Public Safety Act.
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