Mehbooba claims she’s been detained once again at her residence

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Mehbooba claims she’s been detained once again at her residence

Neyaz Elahi

Srinagar (NVI): Peoples Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufti today alleged that she has been illegally detained once again at her residence here ahead of her visit to Budgam while condemning the Centre of “muzzling any form of opposition.”

While taking to Twitter, the former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister claimed that she has been illegally detained at her Gupkar residence ahead of her visit to Budgam in Central Kashmir where hundreds of families have been reportedly evicted from their homes.

“Illegal detention has become GOIs favourite go-to method for muzzling any form of opposition. I’ve been detained once again because I wanted to visit Budgam where hundreds of families were evicted from their homes,” she tweeted along with videos in which she can be seen knocking at the locked gate and asking guards outside to open it and show her papers about her detention.

“Jammu Kashmir has been ruined. What the hell is happening here? First you detain and then utter lies. Even LG says nobody was detained,” Mehbooba can be seen telling police and other administrative officials around her in another video.

In another tweet on Twitter, the PDP chief wrote: GOI wants to continue inflicting oppression & zulm on the people of J&K without any questions asked.

While talking to NVI, PDP spokesperson Suhail Bukhari said that Mehbooba was scheduled to visit parts of Budgam, particularly Kanidajan and its adjacent areas where apple trees have been uprooted and members of Gujjar community evicted from forest land by the government.

Pertinently, the J&K Forest Department had recently axed hundreds of apple trees in Kanidajan area. The Department had also dismantled sheds and Gujjar ‘Dhokas’ in the area, saying that these were erected on forest land.

-ARK

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