CORRECTS AGE - FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010, record photo, Kashmiri separatist person Syed Ali Shah Geelani waves to the media earlier his apprehension successful Srinagar, India. Geelani, an icon of disputed Kashmirs absorption against Indian regularisation and a apical separatist person who became the emblem of the regions defiance against New Delhi, died precocious Wednesday, Sept, 1, 2021. He was 91. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)

CORRECTS AGE - FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010, record photo, Kashmiri separatist person Syed Ali Shah Geelani waves to the media earlier his apprehension successful Srinagar, India. Geelani, an icon of disputed Kashmirs absorption against Indian regularisation and a apical separatist person who became the emblem of the regions defiance against New Delhi, died precocious Wednesday, Sept, 1, 2021. He was 91. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

SRINAGAR – Police successful Indian-controlled Kashmir charged household members of precocious absorption person Syed Ali Geelani nether a harsh anti-terror instrumentality for raising anti-India slogans and wrapping his assemblage successful the Pakistani flag, officials said Sunday.

Geelani, who died Wednesday astatine property 91, was the emblem of Kashmir’s defiance against New Delhi and had been nether location apprehension for years.

His son, Naseem, said Indian authorities buried Geelani's assemblage successful a section cemetery without immoderate household members contiguous aft constabulary snatched his assemblage from the home. Police denied that and called it “baseless rumors” by “some vested interests.”

A video wide shared connected societal media purportedly showed Geelani’s relatives, mostly women, frantically trying to forestall equipped constabulary from forcing their mode into the country wherever his body, wrapped successful Pakistani flag, was being kept. It showed women wailing and screaming arsenic constabulary took the assemblage and locked his household and relatives wrong the room.

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Police said unspecified household members and immoderate others were charged Saturday nether the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. They person not yet been taken into custody.

The anti-terror instrumentality was amended successful 2019 to let the authorities to designate an idiosyncratic arsenic a terrorist. Police tin detain a idiosyncratic for six months without producing immoderate evidence, and the accused tin subsequently beryllium imprisoned for up to 7 years. Rights activists person called the instrumentality draconian.

Kashmir has agelong been a flashpoint betwixt India and Pakistan, which administer parts of the portion portion claiming it entirely.

Geelani spearheaded Kashmir’s question for the close to self-determination and was a staunch proponent of merging Kashmir with Pakistan. For galore successful Kashmir and beyond, helium was an enduring icon of defiance against India.

Rebels person been warring against Indian regularisation since 1989. The portion is 1 of the astir heavy militarized successful the world. Tens of thousands of civilians, rebels and authorities forces person been killed successful the raging conflict.

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Meanwhile Sunday, authorities eased immoderate restrictions that had been imposed since Geelani's death, allowing immoderate backstage vehicles connected roads and vendors to run successful immoderate parts of Srinagar.

Mobile phones were restored precocious Friday but mobile net and restrictions connected the question of radical continued successful galore parts of the Kashmir Valley.

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