Geelani released on bail, hospitalised with chest pain
Srinagar, Nov 13 (IANS) Hardline Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani was released on bail here Friday evening, hours after he was hospitalised while in detention.
Geelani was arrested from outside the Kashmir University on Wednesday, and was shifted to the high security central jail by the authorities’ Thursday evening.
He had to be hospitalised Friday morning after he complained of chest pain.
The separatist leader visited Kashmir University Wednesday where he asked the students ‘to continue peaceful struggle for resolution of the Kashmir issue and reject the bilateral talks between the centre and the separatists’.
State Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Ashok Khajuria had taken strong exception to Geelani’s visit to the Kashmir University and had demanded the dismissal of vice-chancellor Riyaz Punjabi.
A complete strike was observed in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on a call by Geelani to press his demand for vacation of land occupied by the security forces in Kashmir.
Friday’s call was part of Geelani’s ‘resistance programme against the land occupation in the state’.
Hundreds of people took to the streets in Kupwara town after the Friday prayers, shouting pro-freedom slogans. Shops, businesses in the town remained shut and traffic was off the roads.
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