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Hearing in Iftikhar Geelani's case on July 2

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI JUNE 24. The Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, T.S. Kashyap, today posted hearing in the case relating to Iftikhar Geelani, the arrested New Delhi Bureau chief of the Kashmir Times, to July 2 for hearing.

Mr. Geelani, son-in-law of the Hurriyat Conference leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who was arrested on June 9 for allegedly possessing documents classified under the Official Secrets Act, submitted before the court that the seized documents were not in any way secret and the papers were available on the Internet.

His lawyers placed before the court proof of the source of the documents. These included a copy of the Autumn 1996 issue of Islamabad Papers, the journal published by the Institute for Strategic Studies in Islamabad. The pages giving details of the Indian Army deployments in 1995, which were found in Geelani's house, were part of an article, `Indian Repression in Kashmir', by the journal's editor, Shireen Mazari.

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