01 September,2015 06:30 PM IST | | IANS
Hardline Kashmiri separatist leader Masarat Alam was Tuesday re-arrested by police in Jammu jail premises after authorities released him following the Jammu and Kashmir High Court's order
Jammu: Hardline Kashmiri separatist leader Masarat Alam was Tuesday re-arrested by police in Jammu jail premises after authorities released him following the Jammu and Kashmir High Court's order.
His Jammu and Kashmir Muslim League condemned his re-arrest and alleged he was taken to some unknown destination.
"After Jammu jail authorities freed Masarat Alam following the court orders, a police party however, rearrested him and took him away to some unknown destination," said a party spokesman.
Alam, who was arrested on April 17 for waving Pakistani flags in a separatist rally in Srinagar, was shifted to Jammu province's Kot Balwal jail after being booked under Public Safety Act (PSA) on April 23.
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His detention order was quashed by the high court on August 21 on a petition seeking his release.
Alam, who is considered to be a close aide of senior separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani, spearheaded the 2010 summer agitation in Kashmir valley.
A huge controversy had erupted after Mufti Muhammad Sayeed government released Alam on March 9 this year, just days after taking reins of the Peoples Democratic Party-Bharatiya Janata Party coalition government in the state.
