SRINAGAR: PDP President Mehbooba Mufti slammed the central government on Sunday for presenting a FIR over the coverage of the body of separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on a Pakistani flag and the alleged raising of “anti-national” slogans afterwards. of his death.
Budgam police registered the FIR against unnamed people under various provisions of the Illegal Activities (Prevention) Act and the Penal Code of India, knowing a video clip showing Geelani’s body surrounded by a Pakistani flag.
However, when police were installed to take over the body, the separatist leader’s aides withdrew the flag.
Geelani, 91, died Wednesday night at his residence after a prolonged illness. The body was laid to rest in a cemetery at a nearby mosque.
Criticizing the FIR’s presentation, Mehbooba tweeted: “Having turned Kashmir into an open-air prison, now even the dead are not spared. A family cannot be mourned and dismissed according to their wishes. “Geelani sahab’s UAPA family reserve shows the paranoia and cruelty of GOI. This is the Naya Kashmir of New India.”
Budgam police registered the FIR against unnamed people under various provisions of the Illegal Activities (Prevention) Act and the Penal Code of India, knowing a video clip showing Geelani’s body surrounded by a Pakistani flag.
However, when police were installed to take over the body, the separatist leader’s aides withdrew the flag.
Geelani, 91, died Wednesday night at his residence after a prolonged illness. The body was laid to rest in a cemetery at a nearby mosque.
Criticizing the FIR’s presentation, Mehbooba tweeted: “Having turned Kashmir into an open-air prison, now even the dead are not spared. A family cannot be mourned and dismissed according to their wishes. “Geelani sahab’s UAPA family reserve shows the paranoia and cruelty of GOI. This is the Naya Kashmir of New India.”