Shah, Nanaji released, rearrested PDF Print Email
Monday, 06 July 2009
Srinagar, June 6: Chairman Democratic Freedom Party Shabir Ahmad Shah and Secretary JKLF (R) Mohammad Saleem Nanaji Saturday were rearrested by police outside Central Jail after the duo was released on bail. They duo was in four days of judicial remand before police rearrested them today. Shah and Nanaji were arrested by State police on June 2 after the duo attempted to march towards Shopian to express solidarity with family of the two women who were allegedly raped and murdered. The duo was under house arrest for the past 8 days before they were send to Central Jail, Srinagar.
The DFP chairman was later shifted to central jail after a local court sent him to judicial custody for three days.  Before their house arrest the duo had served nine months in detention.
Confirming Shah’s re-arrest, his wife Dr Bilquis told Rising Kashmir that they bailed him out today, “But as he (Shah) stepped outside the Central Jail he was arrested again and taken back into the jail.”
“This is highhandedness of police and they are not allowing him (Shah) to live a peaceful life. Recently he was released after nine months and then kept under house arrest and then arrested and now re-arrested,” Dr Bilquis said.
Publicity secretary JKLF (R) Wajahat Qureshi also clarified Nanaji’s re-arrest. “Police re-arrested them (Shah and Nanaji) without citing any reason,” he said.  
Police accused them of being a threat for the maintainace of law and order in Kashmir.
Shah was recently released after serving a nine month jail term under Public Safety Act (PSA), for leading 'Muzaffarabad Chalo' march in August last year when supply of essentials was stopped at Jammu following Amarnath land agitation. Shah led the mass uprising of 2008 and the Muzaffarabad march on August 11 to protest the economic blockade imposed on Kashmir in the wake of the row over land allotment for the controversial Amarnath Shrine Board. He was arrested under the Public Safety Act.