{"id":308768,"date":"2019-02-02T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T09:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308768"},"modified":"2019-02-02T09:44:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T09:44:53","slug":"jk-mirwaiz-placed-under-house-arrest-ahead-of-pm-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jk-mirwaiz-placed-under-house-arrest-ahead-of-pm-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"J&#038;K: Mirwaiz placed under house arrest ahead of PM visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-308769 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screenshot_20190202-142826__01-283x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/Screenshot_20190202-142826__01-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/Screenshot_20190202-142826__01-768x813.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/Screenshot_20190202-142826__01-696x737.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/Screenshot_20190202-142826__01-397x420.jpg 397w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/Screenshot_20190202-142826__01.jpg 866w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/>Srinagar: State government has placed Hurriyat M chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq under house arrest ahead of the visit of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the state on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAhead of @narendramodi visit, panic buttons pressed by the authoritarian state and control tightened as searches and CASO conducted even in Lal Chowk! Today morning I was put under #HouseArrest!\u201d Mirwaiz posted on Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Security has been beefed up in the state in view of the Prime Minister&#8217;s visit.\u00a0 Police and paramilitary personnel have been deployed in strength around the Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre, the venue for Modi&#8217;s engagements in the valley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Police has also set up mobile checkpoints at dozens of places within the city and at all entry points to Srinagar.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Separatist groups have called for shutdown on the day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;The five years of Modi rule are marred with tyranny and oppression in Kashmir,&#8221; a statement issued by Joint Resistance Leadership said. &#8220;Modi\u2019s arrival cannot be an occasion of joy for us but deserves our strong protest and resentment\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: State government has placed Hurriyat M chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq under house arrest ahead of the visit of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the state on Sunday. \u201cAhead of @narendramodi visit, panic buttons pressed by the authoritarian state and control tightened as searches and CASO conducted even in Lal Chowk! Today morning I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":308769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[2596],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308791,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308768\/revisions\/308791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}