Hard-line Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani was on Friday put under house arrest, as he was planning to hold demonstrations against the alleged rape of a woman and her daughter by an army officer at Handwara in Jammu and Kashmir, official sources in Srinagar said.

A police team reached Geelani's Haiderpora residence in the wee hours and informed him about the prohibitory orders passed on him.

Army accused of rape

The sources said Geelani was planning to lead anti-government protests at a mosque in Srinagar against the incident.

The Major, Rehman Hussain, was suspended and placed under "close arrest" on Thursday by Army Chief General N C Vij. The blood samples of the accused and the victims were also sent to Central Forensic Laboratory at Chandigarh for DNA testing.