Srinagar, June 25 (Reporter) A senior advocate and former J&K High Court Bar Association president Mian Qayoom was arrested by police in connection with the 2020 murder case of Advocate Babar Qadri, official sources said on Tuesday. Qadri, in his 30s, was shot dead by two gunmen who came as clients to his Hawal Srinagar house on September 24, 2020. The case is now being investigated by the Special Investigating Agency of J&K police. “He was summoned to the SIA office this morning where he was formally arrested,” the sources said. There is, however, no official word about his arrest so far. In a video on Facebook just hours before his death, Qadri, who was also a prominent panelist on TV news channels, had criticised Mian Qayoom and accused him of suppressing dissent. Soon after Qadri was shot dead, an FIR was lodged in Police Station Lal Bazar, Srinagar. J&K police later formed a special team to probe the case. In August 2021, when security forces shot dead the chief commander of The Resistance Front (TRF), a shadow front of Lashkar-e-Taiba, Abbas Sheikh, and his deputy Saqib Manzoor the Police claimed that Saqib was also involved in Qadri’s murder. Police later filed charges against five suspects including Saqib. Qadri’s murder case was later handed over to SIA which in 2022, conducted searches at the residences of Mian Qayoom and two other lawyers in Srinagar. Qayoom headed the High Court Bar Association for several terms and was previously detained several times and booked under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA)...////...