Jammu, Mar 14: The Jammu and Kashmir government has ordered revocation of detention of 17 detenues and cleared their names for release, an official spokesman said here today. The orders for their release were issued by Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed in his capacity on the recommendation of the Joint Screening Committee (JSC), the spokesman said. The government has set in motion the process of the release of the detenues through an institutionalised mechanism as promised under the Common Minimum Programme (CMP), he said. He added that the JSC has cleared the names of these people as they were not found involved in any serious cases of militancy.
The JSC, headed by financial commissioner (home) S D Singh, included DGP Jammu and Kashmir A K Suri, ADGP (CID) Kuldeep Khuda and joint secretary of union home ministry, Rakesh Hooja, who recommended the names of the 17 detenues after they received clearance from intelligence agencies. The release of these detenues through this mechanism would be a continuos process and JSC would consider and recommend the cases on the basis of criteria fixed earlier in the meeting on March 6, the spokesman said.
Bureau Report