Srinagar July 24 (IANS) Calling the Monday arrest of seven of its leaders "revengeful and arbitrary" the Hurriyat leadership has called for a shutdown in the Kashmir Valley on Tuesday.
Hurriyat leaders Syed Ali Geelani Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik gave the call for a Kashmir Bandh to condemn what they called were the "revengeful arbitrary and illegal arrests".
Nayeem Khan Farooq Ahmad Dar alias Bitta Karate Altaf Ahmad Shah Shahid-ul-Islam Ayaz Akbar Peer Saifullah and Raja Mehrajuddin Kalwal were arrested by the National Investigation Agency on charges of receiving funds from Pakistan to sponsor terrorist activities and stone-pelting in the Valley.
While six separatist leaders were arrested in Srinagar Bitta Karate was arrested in Delhi.
Nayeem Khan and Ayaz Akbar were taken to Delhi from Srinagar on a Monday afternoon flight by NIA while the other arrested men would be flown in the evening.
--IANS
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