Police in India-administered Kashmir have charged family members of late resistance leader Syed Ali Geelani under a harsh anti-terror law for raising anti-India slogans and wrapping his body in the Pakistani flag, officials say.
Geelani, who died on Wednesday at age 92, was the emblem of Kashmir’s defiance against New Delhi and had been under house arrest for many years.
His son, Naseem, said Indian authorities buried Geelani’s body in a local cemetery without any family members present after police snatched his body from the home.
Police denied that and called it “baseless rumours” by “some vested interests.”
A video widely shared on social media purportedly showed Geelani’s relatives, mostly women, frantically trying to prevent armed police from forcing their way into the room where his body, wrapped in Pakistani flag, was being kept.
It showed women wailing and screaming as police took the body and locked Geelani’s family and relatives inside the room.
Naseem said on Sunday that a police officer visited the family on Saturday and informed them a case had been registered.
Naseem did not provide further details about the meeting, but said there were scuffles as the police removed his father’s body.
“Amid the chaos, we didn’t really know what was happening. We were mourning,” said Naseem.
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