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Iftikar Gilani freed
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, January 13
A Delhi court today set free journalist Iftikar Gilani after the government decided to withdraw the case against him under the Officials Secrets Act, seven months after he was imprisoned at the Tihar Jail here.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Sangita Dhingra Sehgal allowed the government’s plea for the withdrawal of the case under the Official Secrets Act in “public interest” and discharged the Kashmir Times journalist “without going into the factual details”.

Iftikar Gilani, son-in-law of Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Gilani, however, will not get back his computer, floppies and disks seized by the authorities during a raid at his residence here in June last as the court has ordered confiscation of the case property.