Malik taken into preventive custody ahead of hunger strike

Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik was tonight taken into preventive custody by police here, a day after denying permission for his hunger strike beginning tomorrow to press for his demands including handing over the body of Parliament attack case convict Afzal Guru to his family.
Sources said Malik has been taken into custody under sections related to preventive custody.
Malik was apparently to go ahead with his 48-hour protest from tomorrow till Sunday.
The decision to deny permission for his protest came after security agencies submitted a report to the Union Home Ministry that giving permission to Malik to hold protest in Delhi may create law and order problem.

The report also said Malik had been involved in "anti-national" activities in the past, sources said.
The JKLF leader had shared dais with Lashkar-e-Taiba founder and India's most wanted terror mastermind Hafiz Saeed when he had staged a protest in Islamabad against the hanging of Guru.