The incarcerated chairman of Muslim League Masarat Alam Bhat will be produced in Lower Court on November 1 and 8 in connection with the cases lodged against him at Police Station Kothibagh and Shaheed Gunj. Alam was not produced in the court in wake of prevailing uncertainty in Kashmir.
Masrat Alam has been detained under Public Safety Act (record 37th) and is lodged at Hira Nagar Jail.
Masarat Alam, who spearheaded the 2010 agitation, was arrested in October same year.
Masrat Alam was supposed to be produced before the lower court here in Srinagar but the Court in his absence listed his two cases for hearings on November 1 and 8. One of the trial pertains to a case lodged against him in Police Station Kothi Bagh Srinagar with FIR number 50/2010.
The separatist leader, who is part of Syed Ali Geelani-led Hurriyat Conference, has spent most part of his life in jail since 2008. In the last 25 years, he has been booked 37 times under the Public Safety Act – a law that allows government to detain any person, without trial, for a period of up to six months. (KNT)