Mehbooba’s detention
Finally the case of continued detention of former chief minister and allay of BJP Mehbooba Mufti has reached to Supreme Court. Court has issued a notice to Jammu and Kashmir administration as her daughter has petitioned in court against the detention of her mother.
Initially when central government abrogated article 370, on August 5 last year, Mehbooba was detained under the local laws and was kept in several places including government huts and other accommodations. Recently after the six month long detention finally authorities charged her under PSA and provided various grounds of detention for her charges to remain jailed.
Among the charges provided by police in her dossier include the flag of her party and also being her daddy’s daughter. It came under ridicule in media and finally police chief of Jammu and Kashmir said that many such words could have been avoided in her dossier prepared by the authorities. It was first a sister Omer Abdullah who moved to Supreme Court to seek release of her brother as he was also detained under PSA recently after he completed six months under house arrest.
One of the charges in police dossier against Omer is that he has the strange capacity to galvanize people to vote even during the peak of militancy. His sister challenged the grounds of detention and the case is pending in Supreme Court.
Her daughter in her petition has challenged the grounds of detention and has asked for the immediate release of her mother. She has petitioned that the detention order “abounds with legal malafides and malice in law.”
The dossier, Iltija Mufti had earlier said, refers to her mother as a “hard-headed and scheming person” known for “dangerous and insidious machinations”. It also compares her to a “medieval historical figure who usurped power by poisoning her opponents”.
Supreme Court has asked for the response from the administration of Jammu and Kashmir and the case would come again in the court.
