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About Masarat Alam Bhat
- Masarat Alam Bhat is a Kashmiri separatist leader currently General Secretary of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani.
- He is also the Chairman of the Jammu Kashmir Muslim League.
- He played a significant role in the 2010 Kashmir stone pelting rallies which broke out against the Machil encounter carried out by the Indian army in Kashmir.
- To stop such incidences Masrat Alam has been detained by the Government numerous times later.
- Government has booked Masrat Alam in 27 criminal cases but in most of these he has either been exonerated or bailed out by the courts and was released after Mufti Sayeed took over as the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir on 1 March 2015.
- He was detained under the Jammu & Kashmir's Public Safety Act and was in March 2015 released which caused a major political controversy and dominated Indian Parliament Proceedings.
- Amid speculations over his release Masrat Aalam said that no deal was made between him and the Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, saying "I spent more than four years in prison and during all these years I challenged the grounds of my 'illegal' detention".
- He has been Jailed for 17 years and has around 27 cases against him.Indian authorities criticizes Masarat for being "New poster boy of ISI in Kashmir valley".
- Indian authorities claim that Pakistan is using Kashmiri leaders like Masarat Alam to erupt 2010-style confrontations between the youth and the Indian security forces which could lead to violence, so as to seek interest of the United States and European Union for mediation in Kashmir issue.
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