Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Feb 5: Three mainstream leaders including former Minister and chairman of Peoples Conference, Sajjad Lone, were released today after six months of detention.
Sajjad Lone and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader, Waheed Para, were released today from MLA hostel sub-jail this afternoon. However, both of them were put under house arrest soon after their release.
Another PDP leader Abdul Qayoom Wani was released from detention this evening. He had been arrested in August and was lodged in Central Jail Srinagar. He was released this evening. Wani who was a Government teacher and trade union leader joined politics after retirement and contested last Parliamentary elections from Baramulla Constituency on PDP ticket.