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Police crack down on anti-election campaign
By Shujaat Bukhari
SRINAGAR,
APRIL 23.
To prevent their anti-election campaign, police today placed the JKLF chairman, Mohammad Yasin Malik, in custody, and the Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman, Syed Ali Geelani, and the Democratic Freedom Party chief, Shabir Shah, under house arrest. The prominent cleric and Hurriyat leader, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, suffered injuries when police dispersed a protest demonstration.
Mr. Malik, who was on way to Budgam on his anti-election campaign was arrested by police near Narabal along with three others. Even as he resisted, the police forcibly lodged him in a police station. A JKLF spokesman condemned his arrest.
Early in the morning, a posse of police surrounded the house of Mr. Shah at Rawalpora and asked him not to venture out. He was planning to visit Budgam on the same mission. "They told me we will not arrest you but you cannot go out," he told The Hindu over phone.
Similarly, Mr. Geelani's house at Hyderpora was also cordoned off by police and he was asked not to go out. "They are here and have told him not to come out," one of his aides said.
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