Bakshi gets PSA for using Facebook

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Mar 16: The state Government has booked tech-savvy separatist leader Shakeel Bakshi under the Public Safety Act.
Bakshi, one of the founders of Islamic Students League, was arrested from his Batamaloo residence last month.
The family of Bakshi castigated authorities for detaining him under PSA “without any valid ground.”
“Was silence his crime? He was sitting at home only. Holding him on baseless and concocted charges is sheer high handedness on part of the government,” his father, Ghulam Muhammad Bakshi told Greater Kashmir.
“After detaining him last month, he was kept under illegal confinement for five days between March 10 to March 14 as his remand had ended,” he further said. 
Bakshi, who was first arrested in 1984 for participating in student politics in Kashmir University, was quite active on social networking website- Facebook- before his arrest. Since 1984, he was arrested 14 times and spent more than 11 years in jails within and outside the state.
During heydays of armed struggle in ’90s, he coined the famous slogan “Anaj Ugaw, Azadi Paw (cultivate foodgrains, get freedom).”
He lost his brother Shariq Ahmed in 1998 and his another brother Showkat Bakshi spent 14 years in different jails.
A police official, wishing anonymity, said that Bakshi has been booked under PSA for ‘instigating youth.’ “The PSA warrant pending against him was executed Tuesday and he has been shifted to Jammu,” he said.

Lastupdate on : Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:30:00 Makkah time
Lastupdate on : Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:30:00 GMT
Lastupdate on : Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:00:00 IST



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