Srinagar, Nov. 5 -- The common High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh on Tuesday dismissed a petition challenging house detention of National Conference leader Mustafa Kamal and Awami National Conference leaders Muzaffar Shah and his mother Khalida Shah.

In the petition filed by the leaders through their counsel, the petitioners had submitted that they have been kept under house arrest at their own residential houses since August 5.

The police, however, disputed their claim, saying they have neither been put under house arrest nor their liberty has been curbed.

While dismissing the petition, the High Court said that petitioners are at liberty to prove their arrest before the proper forum and in appropriate proceedings.

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