Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s elder son, a doctor at a
government hospital here, was on Saturday arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir
Police, family sources told IANS.
Naim Geelani was arrested at around 10 a.m. when he was on his
way to the residence of his father, the hardline Hurriyat leader, at Hyderpora
here.
“He was not allowed inside the house and police arrested him,” a
family source told IANS.
The arrest comes ahead of the senior Geelani’s scheduled
“address to the nation” over telephone on Saturday afternoon.
The police has barred the entry of the senior Geelani’s family
members, media and most visitors to his residence. “Authorities have also
installed jammers at the residence to block all phone connectivity,” the source
added.
Mr. Geelani, who has been leading the unrest in Kashmir Valley
since the July 8 killing of Hizbul commander Burhan Wani, has been under
continuous house arrest.
Mr. Geelani along with other separatist leaders, including
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik, has been issuing the “protest calendars”
every week under the banner of “Joint Resistance Leadership”.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had in mid August
summoned Naim Geelani and questioned him in connection with a Preliminary
Enquiry registered by the probe agency.
The state police and security agencies have been picking up many
separatist leaders and their party workers, and even those the government feels
are “instigators” of the violence.
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