Kashmir separatist leader Masrat Alam re-arrested
Masarat Alam was arrested on Feb 17 and was slapped with PSA and lodged in the Kot Balwal jail in Jammu.
His party Jammu and Kashmir Muslim League condemned the leader's re-arrest.
According to reports, Masrat was immediately re-arrested after he was released by the jail authority on the orders of Jammu and Kashmir High Court.
Alam, was arrested in April 2015 for allegedly hoisting Pakistani flag and chanting anti-national slogans during a rally organised by the hardline faction of Hurriyat Conference.
Police had registered a case against several separatist leaders, including Alam and Hurriyat Conference hardline leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani for provocative activities including hoisting of Pakistani flag.
Barely a month before his arrest, Alam was released in March 2015 after the PDP-BJP government came to power, a move that triggered political uproar.
(Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)
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