Srinagar, June 1: Two youth who were arrested by Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Uttar Pradesh police have  been handed over to Sopore police, sources told Greater Kashmir on Friday.
 “The duo Wasim and Sajjad Ahmad Bhat arrested on May 24 by ATS of UP police have been handed over to JKP,” they added. Meanwhile, Allahabad High Court today asked the Centre and Uttar Pradesh government to file their replies on a petition challenging the detention of two Kashmiri youths who were picked up by the ATS of the state police while travelling by train last week.
 A division bench comprising Justice Dharnidhar Jha and Justice Ramesh Sinha directed the Centre and the state to file their counter affidavits within a month and ordered that the matter be listed for further hearing after the court reopens after summer vacation on July 2.
 The order was passed on a habeas corpus petition filed by Tahir Madani, Director of Azamgarh-based Jamiatul Falah Madarsa who had submitted two of the seminary's students Muhammad Wasim Butt and Sajjad Butt, both of them hailing from Kashmir, had boarded the Delhi-bound Kaifiyat Express on May 24 but were "illegally" detained by an ATS team when the train reached Aligarh next morning.

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