NEW DELHI, 06 September 2021, (TON): Officials said that the family of iconic Kashmiri leader Syed Ali Geelani has been charged under a draconian anti-terrorism law for chanting pro-freedom slogans and wrapping his body with Pakistan's flag after he died.

Protests erupted in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) since Geelani died on Wednesday at the age of 92 in the capital city of Srinagar.

Police in the occupied territory said “a case under the so-called Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) which effectively allows people to be held without trial indefinitely was registered against Geelani's family.

The family were accused of "raising anti-national slogans and resorting to other anti-national activities" at the influential resistance leader's home soon after his death.

His son Naseem Geelani did not deny the allegations but repeated earlier claims that police took his father's body away to be buried in the middle of the night just hours after his death, and did not allow the family to perform last rites.

The son told media "we told the visiting police officers that they had taken control of everything after my father's death and that we were mourning. We had no way of knowing who was doing what.”