SRINAGAR: Chairman of the hardline faction of Hurriyat Conference in Kashmir, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, has again been put under house arrest on Thursday.
The octogenarian leader was released from the Humhama police station late on Wednesday night.
Mr Geelani, who has been under house arrest for several months now, had tried to step out of his residence and move towards the UN military Observers office at Sonwar in Srinagar when he was whisked away by the police.
Soon after, the police had to use force to disperse a large number of protestors who had gathered outside his residence.
A local news agency reports that many restrictions on movement of a number of other separatist leaders continues as well.
Meanwhile the moderate faction of the Hurriyat Conference has called for a march to Shopian town in south Kashmir where a curfew entered its 13th day today.
Five people have been shot dead by the paramilitary CRPF since September 7.
