Court directs production of Gilani, Malik, others in 1998 fake case.

ISLAMABAD -- The Srinagar court for the consecutive fifth time directed the jail authorities to present illegally detained Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik, and other Hurriyat leaders in a 21-year-old false case registered against them.

The court had admitted the case in which it had granted bail to several Hurriyat leaders in the case registered against them for carrying out an anti-India march in Srinagar in 1998, reported.

Many Hurriyat leaders appeared before the court of 3rd Munsif Fozia Pal in Srinagar in the case. Those who appeared in the court were Professor Abdul Ghani Butt, Javaid Ahmed Mir, Wajahat Bashir Qureshi, Muhammad Sidiq Shah, Sheikh Aslam and others.

All Parties Hurriyat Conference Chairman, Syed Ali Gilani and JKLF chief, Muhammad Yasin Malik could not be produced before the court as they are under detention.

It is to mention here that Indian police in 1998 had registered a case against a number of Hurriyat leaders...