10 court arrest over POWs issue

AGRA, JULY 15. Ten persons courted arrest today when they were prevented by police from going to Jaypee Palace Hotel to meet the Pakistan president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf and apprise him of the ``plight of relatives of prisoners of war in Pakistan''.

Carrying placards demanding release of 54 POWs, around 50-60 human rights and social activists besides relatives of POWs took out a procession from Amar Vilas Hotel, around two kms from Jaypee Palace, where the Vajpayee-Musharraf summit was being held.

``We wanted to meet Gen. Musharraf and apprise him of our plight,'' said Mr. Vipul Purohit, whose father, a Flight Lieutenant, has been missing in action since the 1971 war. The procession, in which there were members of the Human Rights Action Committee of Agra and Pehchaan, a social organisation, was stopped at the Amar Vilas itself.

- PTI

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