Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 5: Jammu and Kashmir National Conference today sought immediate release of senior leader and Party General Secretary, Hajji Ali Muhammad Sagar and others detained under PSA saying there is no justification for their continued detention.
While expressing concern over the plight of detainees arbitrarily arrested during the course of 2019, party’s Spokesperson Imran Nabi Dar said the fate of scores of incarcerated political leaders, civil society members and others hang in balance due to the insensitivity of the Government in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The duration of PSA on party’s senior leader, GS Hajji Ali Muhammad Sagar is terminating today, however to our dismay there is no end to his hardships, he has been facing for past nine months. When the Governments around the world are releasing inmates on the account of their vulnerability and age, the GoI has regrettably chosen not to give any benefit to the incarcerated politicians, scores of other activists of J&K. Many human rights groups too have been seeking the release of these detainees saying the undue detentions flay national and international laws,” he said, adding, the family, friends and supporters of Sagar and other incarcerated leaders kept in house detention or lodged in detention centers elsewhere have been making recurring pleas before the Government for their release.
Imran said unfortunately the Government chose not to give any respite to their families, who are worried for their health and were having a tough time in meeting them at detention centers, adding that most of the detainees have pre-existing ailments, some of them including Sagar underwent medical and surgical interventions during the course of their detention, which is not seeing any end as yet, but all that had no affect on the government.
“The gravity of the situation demands that Sagar and others detained under PSA be allowed to join their families. It does not serve the interests of anybody to have such peoples representatives incarcerated. There is nothing which justifies their detention; all of them have been in public life serving people in one capacity or other,” he said.
He said the release of all the detainees including party GS Sagar sahib and Hilal Lone from detention centers and those under house arrest, will end the tribulation their families, associates and supporters are going through.
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