National Conference (NC) leader and elected Member ofParliament Justice (retd) Hasnain Masoodi on Monday demanded immediate releaseof youth arrested in south Kashmir “so that they re-join their educationalinstitutions without further delay.”
“We demand an immediate release of the arrested youthwithout causing any blemish on their career so that they can immediatelyre-join their respective education institutions and resume their studies,”Justice Masoodi said while addressing NC workers at Khanabal in south Kashmir’sAnantnag district.
He said that hundreds of youth from south Kashmir areas likeKokernag, Anantnag, Qazigund, Awantipora, Pampore, Seer Hamdan and other placesand a good number of them reportedly juveniles have been arrested on mere suspicionand locked in the police stations after the killing of militant commander ZakirMusa.
He said that hundreds of people wait outside police stationsfor hours together, to see their children free from police custody.
Masoodi appealed to the administration to immediately letoff the youth without registering a case as they have been arrested on “meresuspicion that they may join a religious gathering” and registration of casesin these circumstances would unjustifiably put their career at peril and pushthem to uncertainty.
Justice Masoodi reminded the administration that atrocitiesand high handedness would be fraught with grave consequences and in some casepush the harassed youth to militancy.
He has asked the administration and police authorities to learn from the “previous mistakes” and avoid confrontationist attitude.