Srinagar : J&K High Court Bar Association (JKHCBA), Srinagar, has constituted a team of following members, who will remain present in the Supreme Court on 27th and 28th of February, 2019, when the cases relating to the scrapping of Articles 35-A and 370 of the constitution of India are likely to come up for consideration before the Court. The members of the team are: A. Qayoom, President; Mohammad Ashraf Bhat, General Secretary; Bilal Ahmad Wani, Treasurer; Z. A. Shah, Senior Advocate; Z. A. Qureshi, Senior Advocate; Altaf Haqani, Advocate; Shabir Ahmad Budoo, Advocate; Nasir Ahmad Shalla, Advocate; and Syed Musaib, Advocate.
In a meeting of the Executive Committee members held here today, it was stated that though the case is shown in the weekly list commencing from 26.02.2019 upto 28.02.2019 but as it has not been shown in the daily list issued for 26th of February, 2019, therefore, it is expected to come up for hearing on 27th and/or 28th of February, 2019. In a statement to Valley Media Service, the members of the team have accordingly been asked to remain present before the Supreme Court on the aforesaid two dates.
The Executive members also expressed their serious concern over the arrest and detention of Mohammad Yasin Malik, Chairman, JKLF and more than 200 activists of Jamaat-i-Islami including Dr. Hamid Fayaz, Ameer, Jamaat-i-Islami and Zahid Ali, Advocate, its Spokesman, ahead of the hearing of the case by the Supreme Court on 27th and 28th of February, 2019 and demanded that all those who have been arbitrarily and illegally arrested and detained in police stations, interrogation centres and jails should be set free forthwith as it is against the very basic fundamentals of freedom to arrest innocent people and lodge them in jails and/or police stations in violation of their right to life and liberty.
It was also decided that the shutdown call given by the pro-freedom leadership for 24th of February, 2019, should be supported and every one should be asked to make it successful so that a clear message goes to all those who regard and respects the human rights of the people and they take due cognizance of the happenings in Kashmir and in order to bring an end to those violations they impress upon India not to resort to such arbitrary arrests and detentions but free all those who have been booked in frivolous and flimsy cases only because they want the permanent resolution of Kashmir dispute in accordance with the wishes of the people so that peace and tranquility is established in the sub-continent and there is no threat of war hovering over their heads, forever.
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