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SRINAGAR
Senior Hurriyat leader and chairman Democratic Freedom Party, Shabir Ahmad Shah was on Friday booked under the ‘unlawful activities’ act after his supporters raised Pakistani flags during a rally in South Kashmir’s Islamabad district.
The case was filed against Shah and others, hours after the DFP chairman led a rally in the main town, Islamabad after the congregational Friday prayers.
“We have filed a case FIR No. 147/2015, under sections 341, 121, 147, 120-B RPC and 13 ULA,” a senior police official told GNS.
“As some youth started waiving Pakistani flag, hundreds others joined the procession in no time reverberating pro-Pakistani anti-India slogans,” an eye witness said. The protestors later dispersed off peacefully.
The youth according to reports also burnt Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) and Indian flags during the rally.
Soon after the rally concluded, police immediately took Shabir Shah into custody at Khanabal, a spokesman of DFP in a statement issued said.
Earlier, while addressing the rally, Shah said that India has started a war against Kashmiris and reiterated that Kashmir was never a part of India. He said if India’s resistance movement against British was justified why it is entirely different on our part.
While lauding the role of Pakistan, Shah said the Islamic Republic despite entangled in many hardships never stepped back from lending political, diplomatic and moral support to Kashmiris at international level.
Meanwhile, CRPF troops and police used batons and fired few teargas canisters to disperse an anti-India rally in the Old City here.
Witnesses said that scores of youth emerged from the historic Jamia Masjid, Nowhatta after the Friday prayers and staged pro-freedom and anti-India demonstrations.
The government forces used batons and lobbed tear smoke shells after boys pelted stones on them”, Mushtaq Ahmad, a witness said.
However, no reports of injury to any one were received when reports last came in.
Last month on April 17, Masarat Alam was arrested from his residence at Zaindar Mihalla, in old Srinagar after he was booked for sedition charges for raising pro-Pakistan slogans during a rally on April 15 at Hyderpora, Srinagar on the arrival of Hurriyat (G) Chairman Syed Ali Geelani. Other leaders who were charged for sedition include Syed Ali Geelani, Peer Saifullah, Ayaz Akbar, Mehraj-ul-din Kalwal.
