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The demonstration was held at Abi Guzar to protest against the RSS resolution seeking the division of the state, official sources said.
The activists were carrying banners denouncing the RSS and favouring a "complete independence" of Jammu and Kashmir, including parts of the state held by Pakistan and China.
Police tried to persuade them to disperse but when they refused, Mir and his colleagues -- Ghulam Nabi Kashmiri, Ghulam Rasool, Abid Sharief, Shakeel Ahmad and Fayaz Ahmad Sodagar -- were detained.
They were taken to police station Kothibagh and lodged there, the sources said.
Condemning the police action, a JKLF spokesman said the demonstration was organised to highlight the "frustration of Hindu extremists demanding state's trifurcation".
"We want to remind them that Kashmir was an independent nation even before India and Pakistan achieved independence," the spokesman said, and accused the RSS and other such like-minded parties of massacring Muslims in 1947 to change the demography of the state.
"They want to repeat the same by fomenting communal sentiments," he said.
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