SriNagar – JKLF chief Yasin Malik has been arrested in Srinagar. The police have taken him into preventive custody for the poll boycott campaign that he was spearheading in the valley.
Police has started a crackdown against JKLF throughout Kashmir and dozens of JKLF leaders along with chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik have been arrested by police and forces. Police also arrested vice chairman JKLF advocate Basher Ahmad Bhat, Secretary General Ghulam Rasool Dar Eidi, Deputy Organizer JKLF Mir Siraj ud din Davood, District President Kupwara Mohammad Rafiq war, district president Budgam Gulzar Ahmad Bhat Pahalwan, district secretary Kulgam Nazir Nhmad Rather, activists Mohammad Jammal Dar and Abdul Ahad Ganai from Tengmarg in nocturnal raids.
Before his arrest JKLF Chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik while talking to JKLF party leaders said that that boycotting polls is legitimate under the purview of legal and democratic set-up. He said that the crackdown on Kashmir’s pro-freedom leadership actually vindicates the fact that India and its Kashmiri puppets have conceded the defeat long before the battle.