[Reader-list] How Government bent Laws to free Yasin Malik ! - Praveen Swami

[Aditya Raj Kaul]

*MUFTI MOHAMMAD SAYEED stormed to power campaigning, among other things,
against the widespread illegal detentions prevalent under the National
Conference regime. Now his government has set about righting the previous
rule's wrongs with another wrong: illegal releases.*

*Scan the newspaper of December 13 for a headline that reads `Jammu and
Kashmir Liberation Front leader Mohammad Yasin Malik re-arrested'. You will
not find it, because it did not happen — although the law mandated it. The
State government was legally obliged to arrest Malik on December 12, because
the 30-day parole it had granted him expired that morning. Instead it
granted another 30-day parole to Malik and five others, an order of dubious
legal legitimacy that flies in the face of the Public Safety Act (PSA),
1978. To heighten the farce, the government document (Home/PB.V/2414)
granting extension of parole was founded on an earlier parole order that set
free five other prisoners, but not on the decree releasing Malik from
custody.*

*Read the entire report on -
**http://www.kashmiris-in-exile.blogspot.com/*<http://www.kashmiris-in-exile.blogspot.com/>

On behalf of Roots In Kashmir - www.rootsinkashmir.org

Aditya Raj Kaul
New Delhi