J&K police arrests ten for conspiring to revive Hurriyat and banned JKLF

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Hurriyat and banned Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front in Kashmir. The police made the arrests in a case registered at Kothibagh police station in Srinagar under sections 10, 13 of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act and section 121A of IPC. The police claim that the arrested persons and others were allegedly planning to revive these organisations on the directions of Pakistan based handlers.

«This meeting was an overt attempt to start working for revival of these moribund organisations,» read the official police statement. Earlier on Sunday night police had informed that a search was conducted on basis of credible info about meeting of some former militants of JKLF and erstwhile separatists in a hotel in Srinagar and they were brought to police station for verification. The police maintained that initial investigation has also revealed that they were in touch with entities based abroad, few of them were members of many groups that propagate secessionism like Kashmir Global Council headed by Farooq Siddiqui and Raja Muzaffer of JKLF.

«Under the garb of manufactured pretext, this meeting which took place, the real agenda of the meeting was discussing strategy of revival. Initial investigation has also revealed that a similar preliminary meeting took place on 13th June 2023, which was attended by most of them,» read the official statement of the police. However, the Hurriyat Conference led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in a statement here clarified that those who attended this lunch at the hotel were there in individual capacity and not as members of Hurriyat.

«It was not any Hurriyat event nor was Hurriyat leadership aware of it. In fact it is through media that Hurriyat became came to know about it. So to attribute motives to