Srinagar March 03:Police on Friday detained several leaders and activists of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) during a protest sit-in in Lal Chowk area of Srinagar.
A JKLF spokesman said police used “brutal force” against JKLF leaders and activists who had staged a sit-in in Budshah chowk after marching from Madina Chowk.
He said that policemen “showered abuses on the participants of sit-in and used brutal force to arrest them.”
*Vice chairman Showkat Ahmad Bakhshi, zonal president Noor Muhammad Kalwal were among those arrested today, he said, adding that they were shifted to Central jail Srinagar*
JKLF chairman Yasin Malik, he said, has “strongly condemned this unprovoked police highhandedness”.
“Police attack on a peaceful sit-in is yet another example of state sponsored violence,” said Malik.
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