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Separatist leader and president of Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) Shabir Ahmad Shah was taken into preventive custody today when he was on way to North Kashmir’s Bandipora district to address a public meeting.
Shah,executive member of moderate faction of HurriyatConference,was detained alongwith over half a dozen party activists at Sumbal,25 kms from here,this afternoon,police said.
They said Shah along with a large number of party activists and supporters was on way to nearby Hajin when his cavalcade was stopped by police and Shah was taken into preventive custody as a precautionary measure.
The police was apprehensive that his presence in Hajin,where the people are up in arms in support of the demand for a degree college over the past few months,might result in law and order situation,they said.
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