By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Srinagar: While expressing their apprehension and concern over the safety of recently released pro-freedom leader Masrat Alam Bhat, All Parties Hurriyat Conference on Thursday cautioned that any kind of harm to him will have serious and horrible consequences.
The Hurriyat Conference strongly condemned the attitude of the Indian government and media for projecting Masrat “as a dangerous person and a terrorist” and this is an extremely irresponsible attitude.
Masarat Alam (Courtesy: niticentral.com)
Hurriyat, in a release here, said that the Indian investigation agency NIA has no constitutional, legal and moral justification to interfere into the cases of Masrat Alam. The state High Court has dozens of times termed the allegations leveled by the state government against the Masrat as baseless and fake and have dozens of times ordered his release, it said.
Due to the special status of the state enshrined in Indian Constitution, the NIA has no jurisdiction in the state and they can’t reopen the cases once closed by the state High Court. “Hurriyat statement further reads that the situation of 2010 for which the Masrat Alam is being blamed was actually the public reaction of Machil Fake encounter and the killing of many other innocent students.