SRINAGAR, Aug 11: National Conference leader and former Minister Ali Mohammad Sagar, who was arrested a few days ago in Jammu and Kashmir, was today shifted to a jail in Uttar Pradesh, officials said.
Sagar is the first mainstream political leader being sent out of Jammu and Kashmir as part of a Government plan to shift prisoners to jails outside the State.
He has been shifted to a jail in Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh, an official said.
With this, the total number of prisoners shifted out of Jammu and Kashmir has gone up to 46.
Jammu and Kashmir authorities on Friday had airlifted 20 “potential troublemakers” from Srinagar to Agra, while on Thursday, 25 people were shifted as a precautionary measure in the wake of Constitutional changes made by the Government.
Sagar was arrested on August 5 along with former Chief Ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti.
Kashmir High Court Bar Association president Mian Qayoom and Mubin Shah, an office-bearer of Kashmir Chamber of Commerce, were part of the group of 20 people airlifted. (PTI)
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