Overview
- Officials said Mir, also known as Javed Nalka, was taken into custody on December 10 by personnel from Shergarhi police station.
- The FIR from 1996 (No. 192/1996) cites RPC Sections 341, 148, 336 and 332, Section 7/27 of the Arms Act, and Section 13 of the UAPA.
- Investigators allege the crowd attacked police during a procession carrying the body of slain militant Hilal Ahmad Beigh on July 17, 1996.
- Srinagar Police arrested separatist leader Shakeel Ahmed Bakshi in the same case a day earlier.
- JKLF was banned under the UAPA in 2019, and Mir later kept a low profile in separatist politics after the abrogation of Article 370.