Ashraf Sehrai detained under PSA

Senior separatist leader Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai was arrested in Srinagar Sunday morning and booked under Public Safety Act.

Sehrai, 76, already under house arrest, was tipped to be the new leader of the Hurriyat Conference after Syed Ali Shah Geelani resigned last month. Officials said that Sehrai has been booked under the stringent PSA and will likely be lodged in a Jammu jail. The police have said that some members of the Jamaat Islami were also arrested as part of a fresh crackdown on separatists in the Kashmir Valley.