The Bombay high court has stayed the trial of an alleged Kashmiri separatist belonging to the
Hizbul Mujahideen, as his lawyer pleaded that the police did not seek the sanction of the Maharashtra government.
Urfi Ghulam Mustafa was arrested at Mumbai international airport in 1992 and some cassettes containing seditious material regarding Kashmir were seized from him.
However, the police filed a chargesheet against him only in 1998, pressing charges of sedition and waging war against the government.
The songs in the cassettes