J&K: Hours after his release, police re-arrest separatist leader Masrat Aalam
The orders for his release were issued by the Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Tuesday .
Reports said that he was released on Wednesday evening from Kathua jail from where his relatives joined him to be escorted in a police vehicle.
In 2010, he was arrested following a massive unrest that was taking place in Kashmir.
He was kept under preventive custody but was released on March 7, 2015 within a weeks’ time after Mufti Mohammad Sayeed returned to power on March 1 , 2015 with the support of BJP.
Masarat was re-arrested on April 18, 2015 and PSA was slapped on him when he waved a Pakistan flag to welcome Syed Ali Shah Geelani, senior most separatist leader of Kashmir who is fighting for “ Kashmir’s accession to Pakistan.”
(Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)
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