Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 12: Third Front members have asked the Government to release political prisoners lodged in different jails of the State in reverence to the forthcoming festival of Eid-ul-Azha.
A statement of the Front quoting Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami CPI (M) State Secretary and MLA, Hakim Mohammad Yasin President PDF and MLA, Abdul Rashid Kabuli former MP and president JKNDF, Sheikh Abdul Rehman former MP and State president Samajwadi Party, Abdul Rehman Tukru State secretary CPI and Sanjay Saraf Youth President Lok Janshakti Party said these political activists have unanimously demanded the hundreds of youth languishing in jails for quite some time under minor offences since last few years be released under general amnesty and as a goodwill gesture to improve the ground situation in Kashmir and their so that their career is not marred and they don’t get exposed to vulnerable situations inside jails.
The statement said the Public Safety Act has been grossly used against the political prisoners by repeatedly booking them one or the other pretext.
“We are receiving numerous requests from relatives and families whose near and dear ones are languishing in different jails. These families want to cherish the forthcoming festival of Eid with their kith and kin who are presently in jails. The Government must understand the sensitivities involved and release all the political prisoners under an amnesty plan,” the meeting observed.
They also expressed serious concern over the deteriorating health of some of the inmates saying that prisoners with serious ailments should be released on compassionate grounds.
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