The Jammu and Kashmir Police (JKP) has registered an FIR against the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front. (Image for representation: PTI)

The Jammu and Kashmir Police (JKP) on Saturday registered an FIR against the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), a prominent separatist organisation, after it called for a shutdown in the Kashmir Valley.

Separatist Yasin Malik's JKLF party had recently called for 'hartal' on February 9 and 11 to commemorate what they call -- Maqbool Butt and Afzal Guru Martyrdom days.

Although the separatist organisations have often given a "Bandh Call" in the Kashmir Valley, this first stern action taken by the J&K Police against the banned JKLF.

Yasin Malik is currently lodged in jail for his role in 2017 J&K Terror Funding case, since April 2019.

A top source in security grid said: "The FIR has been registered for a bandh call by a banned association and organisation."

The JKLF was banned by the Union Home Ministry in March last year under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.

Sources said that at least four journalists were called for questioning by the J&K Police in regard to the "hartal call".

Sources said that though the FIR was general in nature, it will include journalists who are allegedly peddling separatist narrative and also defying social media ban imposed by J&K authorities. However, the four were let off after questioning.

