India would free 40 Kashmiri prisoners in line with Prime Minister Manmohan's Singh's assurances that New Delhi would not detain people charged with minor offences in the insurgency-torn region, a security official said on Wednesday.
The official said the 40 prisoners would be released from Kashmir prisons on March 31.
"Some of these detainees were involved in minor militancy-related violence in occupied Kashmir while some of them belonged to non-military wings of various militant groups," the official told reporters in occupied Jammu.