Srinagar, April 15 -- A proclamation notice has been issued against Hizb-ul-Mujahideen supremo Mohammed Yousuf Shah alias Syed Salahuddin in a 23-year-old murder case registered at the Budgam police station. Salahuddin, who is presently believed to be living in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), has been asked to appear before the court within a month.

The FIR had been registered in 2002 under Sections 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder) and 109 (instigating someone to commit crime) of the Ranbir Penal Code and Sections 7/25 of the Arms Act.

After repeated attempts to trace him, the proclamation notice, under Section 512 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, was pasted outside his native house in Budgam's Bonpora Soibugh.

The order issued...