Indian police have arrested a top Kashmiri separatist leader a day after they detained a woman with $100,000 in cash intended for him.
More than 100 officers ringed the office of an umbrella group of Kashmiri political and religious leaders where Mr Yasin Malik, leader of the pro-independence Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front, was holding a news conference.
Police threw tear gas at some 60 of Mr Malik's supporters when they tried to prevent police from taking him away in a van in Srinagar.
Police said yesterday a woman, identified only as Shazia, told investigators she had been given the cash in Katmandu by Mr Altaf Qadri, a Kashmiri leader based in Pakistan-held Kashmir.
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She said Mr Qadri had asked her to deliver the cash to Mr Malik.
AP