Aasif Suhaf, Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir administration has released Hurriyat Chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq four years after his house arrest on August 4 in 2019. Mirwaiz Umer Farooq apart from being the top separatist leader of Kashmir, also hold the highest religious position in the valley.
As per official sources, Mirwayiz Umer will lead Friday prayers at historic Jamia Masjid Nowhatta in old Srinagar today after a gap of four years.
Mirwaiz was placed under house arrest on August 4, 2019 when the Government of India (GOI) revoked Article 370 and 35A besides that the state was bifurcated and downgraded to two Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh.
Sources said that the LG administration has taken the decision of Mirwayiz Umer Farooq’s release after due consultation with different law enforcement agencies.
Earlier, a few days ago two more top religious leaders of South Kashmir Moulana Mushtaq Veeri and Moulana Dawoodi was released around two years after their detention in Public Safety Act.
A picture of Mushtaq Veeri being felicitated by BJP leaders and J&K Muslim Wakf Board Chairman Darakhsha Indrabi went viral on social media, in which former Chief Minister’s Mehbooba Mufti and Omer Abdullah criticises the BJP government and accused them of double faced opportunist politics.
