KL NEWS NETWORK
SRINAGAR
For JKKLF leader Yasin Malik, it was a low-key return from jail on Saturday. As his party men drove him to Maisuma, neighbours came out to shake hands, and ask him about his health. It was a quite return, no sloganeering and no talking.
“Thank God, my arm is painless now,” Malik told Kashmir Life.
Malik said that he had barely offered his evening prayers that the jailers told him he has to go home. It took me some minutes and then I was driving home. “Not many people knew it,” he said, “It is gloom everywhere.”
Malik said he would talk to media on Sunday at around 2 pm.
Malik was arrested on July 8, the same evening Burhan Wani was killed in an encounter. He was held initially in the local police station and later shifted to Central Jail Srinagar. When the All Party Delegation landed in Srinagar, authorities had driven him to Humhama police premises. Off late, concern mounted after an injection was badly administrated to him. He had serious swellings in his arm that triggered tensions in the city. It was only after the protests that he was shifted to SKIMS where he was treated for a couple of days. After being discharged, he was sent back to the Central Jail in Srinagar on Friday afternoon.
Interestingly, Malik refused to meet the group of ‘concerned’ citizens from Delhi led by Yeshwant Sinha. He had talked to Wajahat Habibullah on phone telling him that their meeting may not be possible.
“I was happy that he is out,” one of Malik’s sisters told Kashmir Life. “My concern was that his arm was in a bad state and now it has started improving.”
Meanwhile Kashmir Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KCC&l) expressed happiness over the release of the ailing JKLF Chief and considers it to be a step in the right direction. The KCCI demands the release of the human rights activist Khurram Parvaiz and others who have been detained during the course of present struggle.
Malik’s release is one of the series of CBMs that the government has agreed to take up in a meeting with Sinha led delegation. Reports that PSAs are being revoked and detained set free strictly as per the improvement in the situation were making rounds during most of the day.
