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Monday, July 5, 2010

Shah detained under PSA, shifted to Kotbhalwal jail

Srinagar, July 05: The puppet authorities booked senior APHC leader and Chairman of Democratic Freedom Party, Shabbir Ahmad Shah under draconian Public Safety Act (PSA), eighth time in a row and lodged him in Kotbhalwal Jail, Jammu.

The detained leader was shifted from Joint Interrogation Centre, Jammu, to Joint Interrogation Centre, Humhama, on June 30 and on July 2 he was lodged in Central Jail, Srinagar. However, on July 5, Shabbir Shah was shifted to Kotbhalwal jail and detained under PSA.

“The authorities at Srinagr Central Jail informed Shah that he has been booked under Public Safety Act and will be shifted to Kotbhalwal Jail, Jammu”, Dr Bilquees, wife of Shabbir Ahamd Shah, told media men. “Though we had insisted that he be shifted later as he was undergoing certain urine tests at Soura hospital, the authorities did not pay any heed to our pleas and shifted him to Kotbhalwal Jail, Jammu.”

Dr Bilquees said, “The medical tests of Shabbir Shah are still awaited. Even before he could have been bailed out in the fresh false cases lodged at Police Station, Srinagar, the authorities booked him under PSA. They even did not show us the grounds of detention,” she added.

She said that before seeking bail in the fresh FIR, they had asked for a police report, which had not, so far, been provided.

Shah who was in the central jail here on a nine day judicial remand on being brought back from the JIC, Jammu, on June 30, suffered a major deterioration in his health just within two days, and doctors from the SKIMS had advised him complete rest.

As a result of severe infection that had spread throughout his body Shah has become extremely weak physically.
“Flouting court orders, the authorities did not allow him any rest as advised by doctors, but shifted him to Kot Bhalwal jail in the dead of the night even though the judiciary had directed him into its own remand for nine days

Shabbir Shah is being accused of strengthening secessionist ideology in Kashmir and waging a war against Indian union.

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