KL News Network
Srinagar
Chairman Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Muhammad Yasin Malik who was arrested by police on January 20 and sent to central jail Srinagar on a one day remand was yesterday re-arrested by police outside the central jail and immediately shifted back to the same jail on a fresh remand till January 27, 2017.
The JKLF spokesman castigated government of “making mockery of its own laws and courts” and said that “police yesterday re-arrested JKLF chairman immediately after he stepped out of central jail after being released on court orders.”
According to the spokesman, on January 20, 2017, Malik was arrested from his residence and straight away taken to central jail Srinagar without presenting him before any court. “Police arrested him after Tehsildar south had remanded him till 22nd January 2017 and ordered to release him on a personal bond. Yesterday after furnishing the personal bond, central jail authorities released Yasin sahib but as he stepped outside the premises of jail he was re-arrested by police who handed over a fresh order to him from Tehsildar south ordering him to be incarcerate till 27th January 2017.”
“It is ironical that neither on 20th January 2017 and nor on 22nd January 2017 was Yasin Malik sahib presented before the said Tehsildar but still this civil servant in his order wrote that Yasin Malik was presented before him and that no one appeared to furnish his bail bond and he also refused to furnish personal bond because of which he has become a threat to the security and should be jailed until 27th January 2017, “ spokesman said.
Terming this as a travesty of justice by police and civil administration, Malik in his message from jail has said that on one hand the so-called chief minister standing in so-called state assembly says that no one will be re- arrested after being released by court but on the other hand Police on daily basis is re-arresting people and today hundreds of young and old ranging from 14 year to 85 years of age are languishing in police stations, interrogation centres and jails after being re- arrested by police .
Malik had further said that recently justice Nazki of state human rights commission visited central jail Srinagar and other incarceration centres and raised his concerns over these illegally detained people but no change occurred even after his assertions.
He said that in May 2016 he himself wrote a letter to chief justice of J&K high court and asked him to stop these illegal practices by police but that too failed in halting police from perusing its inhuman and illegal agenda.
Malik according to spokesman said that “all these things clearly reveal the fact that Jammu Kashmir is a police state where original power lies with the police and forces and where rule of law is ridiculed and only rule of jungle is prevalent.”
“Civil administration has become a tool in the hands of police and forces as they are hand in glow with police in terrorising and harming common people especially inmates. When a Tehsildar acting as a subordinate of police SHO can furnish false report that too in case of a known person like Yasin Malik and can deliver orders that are completely contrary to the facts, what good can a common inmate or a common person expect from him,” said spokesman of JKLF.
