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Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday released on bail a senior Muslim militant from jail after 13 years, while seven people were killed in a separatist violence, police said. Mushtaqul Islam was released from an interrogation centre of the Indian security forces in Srinagar on Thursday afternoon, a police spokesman said. Islam was arrested on September 17, 1991 during a search operation in Srinagar. "At that time he was heading (hardline militant group) Hizbullah," the spokesman said, adding he had been set free by a court on bail. Islam was one of a number of militant commanders arrested in the early days of the insurgency and held for years despite several release orders by the court. Moderate separatists who held two rounds of talks with New Delhi early this year have been demanding the release of political prisoners from jails. Earlier this week, the Kashmir government also set free a senior separatist Shakeel Ahmed Bakshi. Meanwhile, suspected militants shot dead a surrendered militant and his relative in the central Kashmir district of Budgam overnight, police said.
Indian troops shot dead four militants in three separate encounters in southern part of Kashmir, while a fifth militant was shot dead during an inter-group clash, a police spokesman said. |