Srinagar: J&K’s LG (Lieutenant governor) Manoj Sinha on Friday said that the senior separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq is not under house arrest.
“We have neither arrested him nor is he under the house arrest,” Sinha told BBC Hindi in an interview.
Citing his fathers’ killing, LG said that police was placed around the separatist leader’s house for his protection.
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“Even in 2019, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was not detained under the PSA. He is neither arrested nor detained. He must decide what he wants to do,” Sinha added.
It is pertinent to mention that Mirwaiz was detained on 4 August, 2019, a day before the Govt of India led my BJP (Bhartiya Janata Party) scrapped the autonomous status of Jammu and Kashmir.
Since them he was barred from giving the traditional Friday sermon from the pulpit of Srinagar’s historic grand mosque, Jamia Masjid.
Moreover, the Anjuman Auqaf of Jama Masjid Srinagar continues to call for Mirwaiz’s release.
