Syed Ali Shah Geelani put under house arrest

The hardline faction of the Hurriyat Conference had been informed about his house arrest,the sources said.

On hearing the news,a handful of Geelani’s supporters indulged in stone-pelting outside the residence of the separatist leader resulting in injuries to a cameraman of a TV news agency,they said.

Several other separatist leaders,including chairman of the moderate faction of the Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq,were placed under house arrest following the death of a Kashmiri youth in Hyderabad on March 2.