J&K: Masarat Alam Bhat freed from prison
He was released from prison after four years.
Bhat, who was alleged to be behind issuing calendar protests during the 2010 uprising, was undergoing detention in the district jail at Baramulla on a case registered under sections 107 and 151 in the Shaheed Gunj police station here.
He was apprehended in Harwan area on October 2010 during an operation in which the police and the central agencies had been tracking every details of his movements in the city.
Bhat, whose Muslim League is a constituent of the Hurriyat Conference headed by Geelani, was arrested for his alleged role in
fuelling anti-national protests during the agitations that left more than 120 persons dead and thousands others injured.
Masrat's release comes days after Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed asked police to start releasing political prisoners against whom there are no criminal charges.
(Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)
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