The State Investigation Company (SIA) on Saturday sealed a home of late Kashmiri separatist and Hurriyat chief Syed Ali Shah Geelani at Barzulla in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar. The home of the previous president of All Social gathering Hurriyat Convention (APHC) was sealed on the orders of Srinagar’s District Justice of the Peace (DM).
Geelani handed away on September 1, 2021, after a chronic sickness. His loss of life is believed because the second main setback for the separatists in Kashmir after August 5, 2019 (abrogation of article 370 of the Indian structure), whereas some observers consider that separatism is over in Kashmir. He was a member of the Legislative Meeting of Jammu and Kashmir from the Jamaat-e-Islami and the Muslim United Entrance. After the outbreak of the anti-India insurgency in 1989, he renounced electoral politics and performed a central function as a separatist chief.
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Earlier than his loss of life, the authorities had saved him below home arrest for 13 years. He was detained in 2010 throughout Omar Abdullah’s regime when he led a mass protest in Kashmir towards the killing of 4 Kashmiri youths in an encounter that left dozens useless. Nevertheless, in 2015, below Mufti Muhammad Saeed, Geelani was allowed to depart the home for a number of weeks, however after elevating anti-India slogans in a public assembly, he was once more detained till his loss of life.
Generally he needed to be shifted to a hospital in Srinagar below excessive safety for medical check-ups. Geelani was affected by a number of problems concurrently. One among his kidneys was eliminated as a result of most cancers whereas he underwent a number of coronary heart surgical procedures. In line with his shut sources, his reminiscence had additionally gone for the final two years.
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Geelani began his politics with Jamaat-e-Islami, which is presently banned. He separated from Jamaat-e-Islami in 2003 and fashioned his personal celebration known as Tehreek Hurriyat, whose members have been principally affiliated with Jamaat-e-Islami.
Geelani broke away from the Hurriyat Convention as nicely in response to the Folks’s Convention fielding a veiled candidate within the 2002 meeting elections and later grew to become the top of considered one of its factions. He even closed the doorways of his residence for a parliamentary delegation from Delhi.
His son, Nasibti Altaf Ahmad Shah, was additionally arrested by authorities in 2017 throughout a wide-ranging crackdown on separatists. Altaf Shah has since been detained in Delhi’s Tihar Jail for his involvement within the terror funding case.
Earlier on December 17, in a significant crackdown towards terror funding in Jammu and Kashmir, the State Investigation Company (SIA) seized properties price hundred of crores of rupees of banned Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) in a number of districts together with Baramulla, Bandipora, Ganderbal and Kupwara.
The properties have been seized after being notified by the involved District Magistrates within the train of the powers conferred by Part 8 of the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act, 1967 and Notification No. 14017/7/2019, dated 28- February- 2019 of the Union Ministry of Residence Affairs.