Srinagar
In occupied Kashmir, a Srinagar court has remanded the illegally detained Chairman of Islami Tanzeem-e-Azadi, Abdul Samad Inqilabi, to the judicial custody until February 20.
Abdul Samad Inqilabi was arrested from Pulwama on December 25, 2018, for his active role in the ongoing freedom movement. Later, he was booked under the black law, Public Safety Act.
A spokesman for the Islami Tanzeem-e-Azadi in a statement issued in Srinagar strongly condemned the illegal detention of the party chairman in false cases. He said that Abdul Samad Inqilabi was suffering from various ailments but the occupation authorities were not releasing him.
The family members of Samad Inqilabi in a statement issued in Srinagar expressed serious concern over his declining health and demanded his immediate release.
In occupied Kashmir, the counsel of illegally detained ailing President of Kashmir High Court Bar Association, Mian Abdul Qayoom, has demanded his immediate release.
Mian Qayoom’s counsel, Advocate Zafar Ahmad Shah, during the hearing of the case in the High Court termed the detention of his client as illegal and vague.
Seeking release of the HCBA President, Zafar Shah said that his client had been detained under charges leveled against him in 2008 and 2010. He said, the detaining authority cannot make nine-year-old charges as the basis for the detention of Mian Qayoom under the black law, Public Safety Act (PSA).
After hearing the arguments of Zafar Ahmed Shah, Justice Tashi Rabstan listed the case for further arguments on Monday.
The HCBA President was booked on the orders of the District Magistrate, Srinagar, under the PSA on August 7, 2019, a few days after India revoked special status of occupied Kashmir and placed the territory under military siege.
Initially, he was lodged at Central Jail Srinagar from where he was later shifted to the District Jail Agra in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Mian Qayoom had suffered heart attack in the Agra Jail on Wednesday (January 29). The High Court Bar Association spokesman, Ghulam Nabi Shaheen, said that Mian Qayoom was suffering from multiple ailments and was denied proper treatment in the jail.—KMS
