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Hurriyat and JKDFP leaders released

Five top Hurriyat Conference leaders, detained and placed under house arrest over the weekend were released late on Monday night, while Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party chief Shabir Ahmad Shah and his six colleagues, arrested for violating curfew restriction on Saturday, were let off on Tuesday.

JKLF Chairman Mohammad Yaseen Malik, his deputy Javid Ahmad Mir and Ghulam Mohammad Hubby of the People's Conference, detained on Sunday, were released from Kothibagh police station late on Monday night, official sources said.

They said restrictions imposed on movement of Hurriyat Chairman Abdul Ghani Butt and his predecessor Syed Ali Shah Geelani were also lifted on Monday night. The two leaders had been placed under house arrest on Saturday evening.

All the Hurriyat leaders left for Haigam and Sonawari to express condolences to the family members of those killed in the Haigam firing, Hurriyat sources said.

JKDFP chief Shah, his deputy Maulana Myhammad Abdullah Tari and five others, arrested for violating curfew restriction at Badshah bridge on Saturday and sent to Srinagar central jail, were brought to the office of the Deputy Commissioner on Tuesday and let off, official sources said.

Soon after his release, Shah and his colleagues went to Maisuma and expressed condolences to the kin of Javed Ahmad Nath, who was killed in police firing on Friday last.

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