Srinagar: The JKLF chief Muhammad Yasin Malik was assaulted and then arrested by local police in Khanyar area of the old city in Srinagar when he was on his way to Jamia Masjid to lead a peaceful protest called by JRL on Saturday.
The part spokesman said police party headed by SP Sajad near Gousia hospital Khanyar stopped Malik’s vehicle started showering ‘choosiest abuses’ on JKLF chairman and the whole resistance movement.
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq condemned the police action in a tweet on his official twitter handle.
“Strongly condemn police assault, manhandling and arrest of JKLF chief #YasinMalik by police when he was on way to #JamaMasjid to take part in a peaceful protest against unabated killings of Youth ,use of force on student and continuous illegal arrests of leaders by NIA,” Mirwaiz tweeted.
According to the statement, “The SP was endlessly calling resistance camp as terrorists and threatening to kill them all. Malik objected to his misbehaviour and asked him to show some restraint however he kept abusing him and the resistance leadership.”
The spokesman added that SP ordered the police party to attack Yasin Malik and obliging their seniors’ order policemen assaulted on JKLF chairman, injured him and virtually dragged him to police station Khanyar from where he along with another JKLF leader Bashir Kashmiri were shifted to police station Kothibagh.
