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Srinagar: The death of Sheikh Ghulam Hassan, the former chief of the Jamaat-e-Islami and a prominent Islamic scholar of Jammu and Kashmir last week cast a wide spotlight on the deepening fault lines within the proscribed organisation.

Former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti who visited the bereaved family on Tuesday (May 19) to offer condolences urged the administration to withdraw an FIR that has been reportedly filed by police in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district allegedly in connection with the slogans raised during Hassan’s funeral.

The Wire has reached out to the senior superintendent of Kulgam police Anayat Ali Chowdhary for details about the FIR. This story would be updated when a response is received.

A resident of Tarigam village in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district, Hassan, who served twice as the ameer (chief) of Jamaat passed away on Saturday, May 16, after a prolonged illness.

Witnesses said that thousands of people including young and elderly men attended the funeral prayers which were held on Saturday afternoon following which the deceased’s coffin was shouldered in a massive procession and taken to a graveyard in Kulgam for burial.

Ahead of the funeral prayers,........

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