Srinagar: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) have arrested prominent Human Rights, defender/activist Khurram Parvez on Monday evening after raiding his house and office around 12 pm.
He has been booked under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and other multiple charges with sections 120B, 121 and 121A of the IPC [Indian Penal code] and sections 17, 18, 18B, 38 and 40 of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) Act, 1967 invoked.
G Siva Vikram Superintendent of Police (SP) NIA has arrested Mr. Khuram and The Kashmir Walla reported that the NIA officials carried out searches at Khurram's house in Sonwar and office in Amira Kadal before taking him along for questioning to the NIA office at Church Lane in Dalgate.
“At around 6 pm, the family received the call to bring his [Khurram’s] clothes. His wife along with her son visited the place and handed over the clothes to the officials there."
Parvez has long been a vocal critic of the ruling government, and was arrested for two and a half months in 2016.
Two days before his arrest, the Indian immigration authorities had refused to let Parvez board a flight to Geneva, where he was scheduled to address the United Nations Human Rights Council about India’s human-rights record.
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court had quashed his detention as “illegal.”
The detained is the chairperson of AFAD (Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances) and the programme coordinator in (Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society) JKCCS.
He had lost his leg in a landmine while monitoring the 2004 Parliamentary elections.