Rajya Sabha MP and a Veteran Lawyer, Ram Jethmalani has taken up the issue of In-House Detention of Separatist Hurriyat Conference Leader Syed Ali Shah Gilani and would  challenge it in Supreme Court. Ram Jethmalani termed it as  sheer violation of Constitution and law.
Why Gilani is under House Detention ?
Syed Ali Shah Gilani has been under in house detention since April following his Anti India Speeches and Activities.  Last year Geelani  figured in the news when he condemned the killing of Osama Bin Laden by the US. Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah has blamed Geelani for the rise in militancy and bloodshed in Kashmir
In July 2012, Mustafa Kamal, a National Conference leader accused Geelani of being a double agent. He alleged that while he receives pension from the Government for his membership of J&K Legislative assembly prior to 1990, is also on the pay-roll of ISI.
Is Ram Jethmalani’s stand as a Lawyer justified ??
“Ram Jethmalani, who is  also pleading the case of Hurriyat leader Ghulam Muhammad Bhat, arrived  at Srinagar to visit the site where Bhat was arrested in January 2011. He straightway came to Geelani’s Hyderpora residence from Srinagar Airport. Both the leaders had a threadbare discussion on the plight of Kashmiri detainees and nature of their cases,†said the Hurriyat spokesman Ayaz Akbar in a statement.
Geelani on the occasion also told the Supreme Court lawyer that he (Geelani) had not been allowed to offer Friday prayers after April 2012 and that he was not allowed to participate in the marriage ceremony of his grandson. “Though a case is going on in the High Court but the government does not file objections despite repeated court orders,†he said.
Geelani said the human rights violations and excesses on people would continue in Jammu Kashmir until the whole state was demilitarized.
Ram Jethmalani highlights his Pakistan Linkages
Ram Jethmalani revealed that he actually belonged to Sindh, Pakistan, and practiced law in Karachi before 1947.
Mentioning about his relations with the noted legal luminary of Pakistan, A K Borohi, Jethmalani claimed that during the formulation of Pakistan’s first Constitution he (Bohori) would often seek his (Jethmalani’s) suggestions over phone. “My fingerprints are there on the Pakistan’s Constitution,†he quoted Jethmalani as saying.