Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Dec 27: Senior separatist leader and Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik along with other Front leaders has been sent to Central Jail on the charges of attempt to murder and waging war against the State.
Malik, along with his eight of party associates, were detained on Friday last week when they attempted to take out a rally towards Lal Chowk against the killings in Rajouri district by Village Defence Committee (VDC) gunmen. The police action had triggered violent protests in Maisuma, where the JKLF protesters rallied, which left Kothi Bagh SDPO Fahad Tak critically injured in eye and face, and he was airlifted to Delhi for specialized treatment.
“Police have charged Yasin and others under acts of attempt to murder and waging war against State. Police after three days today produced Yasin Malik and others before a Magistrate and the Court ordered to send them on 10 day-judicial remand to Central jail Srinagar,” said a JKLF spokesman here in a statement.
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