Masarat Alam Bhat (born 1971) is a Kashmiri Islamist activist and a political separatist leader of Jammu and Kashmir.
Government has booked Masrat Alam in 27 criminal cases but in most of these he has either been exonerated or bailed out by the courts and was released after Mufti Mohammad Sayeed took over as the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir on 1 March 2015.
[5] He was first arrested by the Border Security Force in October 1990 on charges of serving as a lieutenant to the then-prominent militant, Mushtaq Ahmad Bhat.
Bhat found space under hardline Islamist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani's wing after the Hurriyat Conference split in 2003.
"[32] Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju said, "Alam's arrest sends a strong message to the fringe groups.