SRINAGAR: Former chief minister and president of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mehbooba Mufti said that she was placed under house arrest on Wednesday in her official residence in Srinagar city.
Taking to social networking site Twitter, Mehbooba wrote : “While HM is going around Kashmir beating drums of normalcy,I am under house arrest for simply wanting to visit Pattan for a worker’s wedding.If an ex CM’s fundamental rights can be suspended so easily, one cant even imagine the plight of a commoner.”
While HM is going around Kashmir beating drums of normalcy,I am under house arrest for simply wanting to visit Pattan for a worker’s wedding.If an ex CM’s fundamental rights can be suspended so easily, one cant even imagine the plight of a commoner.@AmitShah @manojsinha_ pic.twitter.com/5dYSfk8j1f
— Mehbooba Mufti (@MehboobaMufti) October 5, 2022
Meanwhile, Srinagar police in a tweet clarified that former J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti is free to travel to Pattan.
It is clarified that no restriction of any kind travel to pattan, travel to pattan was at 1 pm as intimated to us. The picture tweeted by her is of inside of the gate with own lock of residents who stay in the bunglow. There is no lock or any restrictions. She is free to travel. https://t.co/YMccUwDSh4 pic.twitter.com/kG5Luhj7Bm
— Srinagar Police (@SrinagarPolice) October 5, 2022
“It is clarified that no restriction of any kind travel to pattan, travel to pattan was at 1 pm as intimated to us. The picture tweeted by her is of inside of the gate with own lock of residents who stay in the bunglow. There is no lock or any restrictions. She is free to travel,” Srinagar Police tweeted.
