A close aide of late Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani was involved in the 2020 murder of prominent advocate and television panellist, Babar Qadri, as per the chargesheet filed by the Jammu and Kashmir Police. In the chargesheet, accessed by India Today TV, the police alleged the direct involvement of Mian Abdul Qayoom, the former President of the High …
Mohammad Ashraf Bhat, a Kashmiri lawyer who served as the general secretary of the Kashmir chapter of the J&K High Court Bar Association, was arrested by the J&K Police on Tuesday night. Mr. Bhat has become the fourth lawyer of the erstwhile Bar to be arrested in 23 days. Earlier, ex-Bar chief Mian Qayoom, acting Bar chairman Nazir Ahmad Ronga, …
Mian Qayoom, former president of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association, was detained and questioned by J&K police on Tuesday in relation to the assassination of lawyer Babar Qadri in 2020 in Srinagar. Mr. Qadri had been critical of Mr. Qayoom’s functioning as the Bar association president and would criticise him on social media platforms. However, in 2022, …
The Jammu and Kashmir State Investigation Agency has detained Mian Abdul Qayoom, a prominent lawyer and former president of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association, for his alleged involvement in the 2020 murder of advocate Babar Qadri. Prior to his murder, Qadri had posted a video on Facebook criticizing Qayoom for his political activities within the Bar Association. …
On August 5th, 2019, the Government of India stripped off the Constitutional autonomy of the State of Jammu and Kashmir by amending Article 370 of the Constitution of India, and subsequently bifurcated the State into Union Territories of J&K, and Ladakh. Image : Columbia Journalism Review THE JUDICIAL RESPONSE TO PETITIONS CHALLENGING THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS, RESTRICTIONS AND DETENTIONS Apart from …