Srinagar: JKLF chief Mohammad Yasin Malik was arrested in the summer capital, Srinagar, to prevent him from leading a protest march after Friday prayers against the rape and brutal murder of an 8-year-old girl in Kathua in Jammu region.
A JKLF spokesperson told UNI that a large police party today came to the residence of Malik in Maisuma and arrested him. “The JKLF chief was then lodged in Kothibagh police station,” he added.
He said Malik was arrested to prevent him from leading a protest march after Friday prayers to Lal Chowk, the nerve center of the summer capital, demanding death penalty to Kathua rape and murder culprits.
