J-K Admn To Release 3 Politicians From Detention Today

The Jammu and Kashmir administration would on Thursday release three politicians who had been under detention since August 5 when the Centre abrogated the special status granted to the state, officials said.

Yawar Mir, Noor Mohammed, and Shoiab Lone would be released on various grounds, the officials said on Wednesday night, explaining the reasons for ending their detention.

While Mir is a former PDA MLA from the Rafiabad Assembly seat, Lone contested unsuccessfully on a Congress ticket from North Kashmir and later resigned from the party. He was considered close to People’s Conference chief Sajjad Lone.
Noor Mohammed is a National Conference worker who has been managing the party’s show in the militancy-infested Batmaloo area of Srinagar city. Before his release, he would be signing a bond to maintain peace and good behavior, the officials said.
The governor administration had earlier released Imran Ansari of the People’s Conference and Syed Akhoon on health grounds on September 21.

More than a thousand people, including politicians, separatists, activists, and lawyers, were detained after the August 5 move of the Central government to abrogate the state’s special status.

The detainees include three former chief ministers Farooq Abdullah, Omar Abdullah, and Mehbooba Mufti.

Over 250 people were sent to the jails outside Jammu and Kashmir. Farooq Abdullah was subsequently detained under the stringent Public Safety Act, while other politicians were mostly detained under different sections of the criminal procedure code. PTI