The J&K Police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested two militants involved in the killing of Mirwaiz Farooq, then chief cleric of the Kashmir Valley, in 1990.
“Javaid Bhat and Zahoor Ahmed Bhat, both residents of Srinagar, were arrested by the State Investigation Agency [J&K Police’s special wing] . They were hiding in Pakistan and Nepal over these years. Both have been arrested and handed over to the CBI as proclaimed offenders,” Special Director General of Police (CID) R.R. Swain said.
Farooq, also then chairman of the All Jammu and Kashmir Awami Action Committee, is the father of Hurriyat chief and Valley’s present chief cleric, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.
