SRINAGAR/JAMMU:
Hardline separatist leader Masarat Alam Bhat, whose release by the new PDP-BJP Government in the State had triggered a huge controversy, has again been booked under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA) and quickly moved out of the Valley to a jail in Jammu.
The fresh detention under PSA against Bhat was condemned by the hardline Hurriyat Conference which called for a strike on Saturday. The PSA allows detention of a person for a minimum of six months without trial.
Bhat, who was released last month after spending over four years in jail under PSA, had been arrested on April 17 on charges of waging war against the country and sedition after he hoisted Pakistani flag and chanted anti-national slogans during a rally organised for hardline Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani.
“He (Bhat) has been booked under PSA and shifted to Kotbhalwal Jail,” District Magistrate Budgam Altaf Ahmad Mir said today.
The 45-year-old hardline leader had been remanded to a seven-day police custody after his arrest.
Police today said he has been sent to Kotbalwal jail in Jammu after being shifted from Srinagar during the night.
Bhat had applied for bail before Chief Judicial Magistrate Budgam which heard the arguments of the prosecution and the petitioner’s counsel yesterday. The court has reserved its orders on the bail plea till Saturday. (AGENCIES)
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