Pre-poll exercise, say police as tension spikes across valley.
Fresh mobilisation of troops and arrest of around 30 Jamaat-e-Islami ( JeI) members and JKLF chief Yasin Malik in late-night raids triggered tension and hysteria in Kashmir on Saturday, with people lining up outside petrol pumps, ATMs and grocery shops.
The clampdown on separatists started on Friday night when JKLF chief Yasin Malik was arrested and shifted to a police station around 11 p.m.
Later, in multiple raids, the police rounded up 30 members of the socio-religious group JeI, including its chief Dr. Abdul Hamid Fayaz, spokesman Zahid Ali, former secretary general Ghulam Qadir Lone and Anantnag head Abdur Rouf. However, a JeI spokesman, on the condition of anonymity, said around 150 members were rounded up in the crackdown.
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A police statement said the move was made ahead of the arrival of an Election Commission team in Kashmir on March 5 “to assess the situation and to take a call on holding polls”. “We took some measures to ensure peaceful elections,” said the police.
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