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Scores of youths successful Kashmir, who allegedly participated successful rallies protesting the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei connected February 28, person been booked nether the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). At a gathering with Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha connected Sunday (March 15, 2026), a delegation of legislators from the ruling National Conference (NC) demanded the withdrawal of specified cases earlier Id.
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According to the NC, cases person been booked nether provisions of the UAPA and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) successful the constabulary stations of Zadibal, Rainawari, Shalteng, Habba Kadal, and Lalbazar successful Srinagar; Chattargam and Budgam successful Budgam district; Pattan successful Baramulla district; and Sumbal successful Bandipora district. In the Nowgam constabulary presumption successful Srinagar alone, 21 youths from Khanda, Sathoo Klan, and Chattergam were booked under Section 13 of the UAPA and Section 109, 190, 191 (3) and 121 (1) of the BNS.
‘Mourning gatherings’
“FIRs person been registered, including the invocation of provisions nether the UAPA, a stringent instrumentality whose exertion against mourners sets a profoundly concerning precedent,” said the memorandum jointly filed by the NC legislators, including Tanvir Sadiq, Ali Mohammad Dar, Shameema Firdous, Reyaz Bedar and Hilal Akbar Lone. “We request a halt to immoderate further arrests oregon punitive measures targeting individuals for their information successful these mourning gatherings,” it said.
L-G Sinha heard the demands and “promised to reappraisal these cases,” the legislators said. “There are galore who are students. The L-G has assured to reappraisal the cases up of Id and guarantee their release. We are hopeful these cases volition beryllium withdrawn,” Mr. Sadiq told The Hindu.
‘Religious loss’
After Khamenei’s killing, hundreds of section residents attended anti-U.S. and anti-Israel rallies successful Kashmir. “Ayatollah Khamenei was not simply a caput of state. For a important conception of Kashmiri Muslims, helium was a revered spiritual and spiritual leader, a Marja (source of emulation), and a fig of profound theological authority. His passing was truthful experienced not arsenic a geopolitical improvement but arsenic a infinitesimal of heavy idiosyncratic and spiritual loss,” the NC memorandum read.
It said that contempt the peaceful and spiritual quality of these gatherings, the administrative effect “has been disproportionate and whitethorn beryllium counterproductive”.
The NC’s memorandum noted that mourning gatherings for the slain Khamenei had been held successful Lucknow, Kargil, New Delhi, Mumbai, and respective different cities crossed India without immoderate ineligible enactment being taken against participants.
“It is truthful some inconsistent and unjust that citizens successful Jammu & Kashmir unsocial look transgression prosecution for expressing the aforesaid grief. Such disparity undermines the law committedness of adjacent citizenship and adjacent extortion nether the law,” the NC leaders said.
