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Former Hurriyat Conference chairman and firebrand Jammat-e-Islami leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani was put under house arrest on Wednesday shortly before he was to attend the general council meeting of the conglomerate in Srinagar.
A posse of policemen and paramilitary jawans descended on Geelani's Hyderpora residence around 0900 hours and ordered him not to leave the house, eyewitnesses said.
Officials confirmed that the Hurriyat leader had been put under house arrest, but did not give any reasons for the same.
Geelani, when contacted by PTI, said: "The action of the government is to restrict my activities. I was about to leave for Hurriyat headquarters to attend the general council meeting, but was prevented by the police from leaving my house."
Geelani claimed that police did not give reasons for his house arrest.
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