New Delhi: Indian police put noted human rights activist, Professor Syed Abdur Rehman Gilani, under house arrest in New Delhi, today.
The police placed Prof SAR Gilani under house detention at his residence in Zakir Nagir area of Delhi who as per the police was presumably coming to the airport to receive senior resistance leaders, Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik.
Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik had announced to go to New Delhi and court arrest at the headquarters of India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) in protest against its cruel policies regarding the people of Kashmir. However, Indian police arrested Muhammad Yasin Malik last night from his residence and lodged him at Srinagar Central Jail while Syed Ali Gilani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq were already under house detention.