Srinagar: Kashmir High Court Bar Association on Wednesday constituted team of lawyers to represent it in the petition filed by lawyers’ body against the shifting of Kashmiri prisoners, detained under PSA, to the jails outside the State. The petition was referred to a Division Bench by Justice Rajesh Bindal on December 17 and the court, keeping in view the resolution of the Bar Association, directed its listing before the Division Bench. The reconstituted team shall comprise of the seniors advocate Z. A. Shah and R. A. Jan besides advocates Altaf Haqani, Mohammad Ashraf Bhat, Arshad Andrabi and Bashir Sidiq. Meanwhile, lawyers’ body strongly condemns the arrest of Mohammad Yasin Malik and his other associates including Mushtaq Ahmad Dar; Mohammad Hanief Dar; Shabir Ahmad Ahanger; Fayaz Ahmad Lone; Imtiyaz Ahmad Dar; Imtiyaz Ahmad Ganai and Basharat Ahmad Bhat and also causing injury to the sister of Mohammad Yasin Malik, by a teargas shell during peaceful protest against the killing of seven civilians and injuring several others at Sarnoo Pulwama on December 15. “Despite having been granted bail by Tehsildar, Executive Magistrate, Srinagar, yesterday, in a case filed against them u/s 107/151 Cr.P.C, (they have been) falsely booked in a fabricated FIR No. 33/2018 of Police Station Maisuma, for committing offences punishable u/s 307, 336, 353,148, 149 RPC,” the Bar association said, and termed the same as a worst kind of misuse of power and authority and also a “blatant violation” of human rights of the people of Kashmir. The lawyers’ body also appreciated the United Nations Human Rights Council, Amnesty International and Organization of Islamic Cooperation, for showing their concern, over the killing, blinding and maiming of innocent people of Kashmir. It requested them to take cognizance of the incident as well and send a fact finding mission immediately to Kashmir so as to investigate the “gruesome acts of human rights violation being committed by Indian forces in Kashmir so that these brutalities inflicted on the people on daily basis with impunity, are brought to an end.”
