SRINAGAR, July 25: After outcry over his detention began getting louder, Pirzada Iqbal, a student of journalism at Kashmir University was released Tuesday after spending six days in police custody.
“He has been released,” a police official was quoted by a local daily Greater Kashmir as saying.
Iqbal’s classmates boycotted classes for two days and had launched a campaign on social networking sites demanding his release after he was detained by the police allegedly for having links with Pakistan-based militants.
“There are adverse reports against him from the Intelligence Bureau,” a police official had said.
His friends and relatives, however, blamed the police of trying to frame him and also of forcing him to admit the charges and approached various media organisations to report about the issue.
Tuesday, a group of faculty members of the postgraduate Media Education Research Centre (MERC), where Iqbal studies, met Inspector General of Police, S.M. Sahai to discuss the matter after students refused pleas to resume work at the department.
