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Court grants bail to senior journalist Qadri

YB WEB DESK. Dated: 6/26/2019 12:04:12 PM

Srinagar, June 25 A court in Srinagar on Tuesday granted bail to senior Kashmiri journalist and owner of a daily newspaper, Ghulam Jeelani Qadri, who was arrested around midnight in a nearly three-decade-old case. Qadri, 62, Printer and Publisher of Urdu daily Aafaq, was detained around 11:30 pm last night when he had just reached his home after finishing the edition. Senior Superintendent of Police, Srinagar, Dr. Haseeb Mughal told that Qadri was arrested in a “very old case”. “TADA court had issued a warrant against him but he didn’t cooperate. He will be produced in the court today,” Dr. Mughal had said earlier. According to a report, police told the family that Qadri was arrested in a case registered against him in 1992.