{"id":43596,"date":"2026-03-13T03:04:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=43596"},"modified":"2026-03-13T03:04:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:04:27","slug":"kashmiri-leader-granted-bail-after-six-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=43596","title":{"rendered":"Kashmiri leader granted bail after six years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Supreme Court of India on Thursday granted bail to veteran Kashmiri leader Shabir Ahmed Shah after more than six years of pre-trial detention.<\/p>\n<p>Shah \u2014\u00a0a 74-year-old chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (JKDFP)\u00a0 \u2014 is a longstanding figure in the region\u2019s separatist movement.<\/p>\n<p>The court cited excessive detention length, slow trial progress, and procedural concerns in the case brought by the National Investigation Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Shah was arrested in 2019 under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act over allegations of funding separatist activities in Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>The judges questioned the prosecution\u2019s reliance on decades-old speeches rather than recent evidence to justify continued custody.<\/p>\n<p>The decision highlighted growing judicial scrutiny of prolonged pre-trial detention under anti-terror laws in India\u2019s post\u2013Article 370 of the Constitution of India political landscape.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court of India on Thursday granted bail to veteran Kashmiri leader Shabir Ahmed Shah after more than six years of pre-trial detention. Shah \u2014\u00a0a 74-year-old chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (JKDFP)\u00a0 \u2014 is a longstanding figure in the region\u2019s separatist movement. The court cited excessive detention length, slow trial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}