SRINAGAR, (PTK): A day after JKLF chief Yaseen Malik was detained, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday called it an ‘arbitrary move’ and said that this will only precipitate matters in J&K. On Twitter, Mufti wrote ‘In the past 24 hours, Hurriyat leaders & workers of Jamaat organisation have been arrested. Fail to understand such an arbitrary move which will only precipitate matters in J&K.’
The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister further added ‘Under what legal grounds are their arrests justified? You can imprison a person but not his ideas.’
In the past 24 hours, Hurriyat leaders & workers of Jamaat organisation have been arrested. Fail to understand such an arbitrary move which will only precipitate matters in J&K. Under what legal grounds are their arrests justified? You can imprison a person but not his ideas.
— Mehbooba Mufti (@MehboobaMufti) February 23, 2019
The remark comes nine days after an audacious terror attack on a convoy in Pulwama district in which 40 CRPF personnel lost their lives.
Earlier, the Jammu and Kashmir administration Wednesday withdrew security of 18 separatists and 155 political leaders, including Wahid Parra, a close aide of former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, and ex-bureaucrat Shah Faesal. (PTK)
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