A senior journalist was arrested by the police during a raidlast night at his residence in Srinagar in a nearly three-decade old case.
Ghulam Jeelani Qadri, 62, Printer and Publisher of Urdudaily Aafaq, was detained around 11:30 pm last night when he had just reachedhis home after finishing the edition.
Senior Superintendent of Police, Srinagar, Dr. Haseeb Mughal told Greater Kashmir that Qadri was arrested in a “very old case”. “TADA court had issued a warrant against him but he didn’t cooperate. He will be produced in the court today,” said Dr. Mughal.
According to a report, police told the family that Qadri wasarrested in a case registered against him in 1992.