SRINAGAR: Clashes against the backdrop of a recent event in Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and resultant and resultant hullabaloo erupted between stone-hurling mobs and riot police in central Srinagar soon after Friday congregational prayers at City’s historical Grand Mosque.
The protesters, most of them covering their faces with bandanas, were demanding unconditional release of Valley-born S.A.R. Gilani, a former professor at Delhi University, arrested in connection with a recent event at the Press Club of India where anti-national slogans were allegedly raised and subsequently booked on sedition charges, and an end to alleged harassment of Kashmiri students amid the furore over the event held at the campus.
No bail to Geelani
Former Delhi Univ-ersity professor S.A.R. Geelani facing sedition charges for allegedly organising an event at the Press Club of India to mark the death anniversary of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was on Friday denied bail by Patiala House Court.
Geelani is presently in judicial custody till March 3. He has been lodged in “high risk ward” of Jail No. 1 of Tihar Jail. Geelani through his defence counsel Satish Tamta had moved a bail application before the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Harvinder Singh. The move was opposed by the Delhi Police which said that the offences against Geelani were grave.
