Police administration in Indian-administered Kashmir has unfastened a case counter to the family members of late resistance leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani under a punitive anti-terror rule for purportedly hovering anti-India slogans and enfolding his body in the Pakistani flag. The Charges comprise hovering anti-India slogans and wrapping the late leader’s body in the Pakistan flag.
Police said,
“We had registered a case against unspecified family members and some others and began probing the case under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. They have not yet been taken into custody. Critics say such police cases are sometimes brought to silence or intimidate opposing voices.”
Syed Ali Geelani was a top separatist leader and one of the severest critics of Indian rule in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.
Geelani died on Wednesday at the age of 91. He was the symbol of Kashmir’s insubordination contrary to New Delhi and had been under house arrest for years. The administrators undone the case on Sunday.
The Indian establishments had buried Geelani’s body in a local cemetery lacking any family members after police snatched his body from the home. On the other side, Police denied naming it baseless rumors by some vested interests.
According to security officials,
“Cases were registered against Geelani’s kin for shouting anti-India slogans and wrapping his body in the Pakistani flag.”
In a tweet, The Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan criticized India’s elimination and rushed the funeral of Geelani’s body beside the case against the family.
“It is shameful. Snatching the body of the 92-year-old Syed Ali Geelani, one of the most respected and principled Kashmiri leaders, and then registering cases against his family is just another shameful example of India’s descent into fascism under the Nazi-inspired RSS-BJP government.”
India describes the armed rebellion as Islamabad’s proxy war and state-sponsored terrorism. Most Muslim Kashmiris consider it a legitimate freedom struggle and support the rebel goal that the territory be united, either under Pakistani rule or as an independent country.
Rebels have been fighting against Indian rule since 1989. The region is one of the most heavily militarized in the world. Tens of thousands of civilians, rebels, and government forces have been killed in the raging conflict.
The Tautness has been broadening in the region after New Delhi unprotected Kashmir’s semi-autonomy, argued its statehood, and detached inherited fortifications on land and jobs. Authorities have brought novel regulations.
In the meantime, establishments relieved approximate limitations that had been imposed since Geelani’s death, permitting private vehicles on roads and vendors to function in some fragments of Srinagar.
Conversely, most shops and productions stayed shut as administration forces make the rounds on roads and streets in the city. Mobile phones were restored late on Friday but mobile internet and restrictions on the assembly of people continued in many parts of the Kashmir valley.
Paramilitary soldiers have remained positioned outside the graveyard where Geelani was buried. The affiliates of the late separatist were perplexed by the circumstance shadowed by death.
Syed Ali Geelani led Kashmir’s measure for the right to self-rule and was a devoted supporter of the amalgamation of the India-occupied region with Pakistan.
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