SRINAGAR: Chairman of Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has sent a legal notice to the Jammu and Kashmir administration following a four-year period of house detention, media reports said.
He has requested for his release from detention and issued a warning that he will take the matter to court if the administration does not provide a favorable response.
Mirwaiz has been under house detention since August 4, 2019 , a day before the reading down of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and downgrading the state into two union territories-JK and Ladakh.
The Indian Express reported that legal notice was issued to JK Chief Secretary Arun Kumar Mehta by Mirwaiz’s counsel Nazir Ahmad Ronga.
The notice reads, “You are therefore, through the medium of this legal notice, requested to lift/remove the restrictions imposed upon the movement of my client through the deployment of a large contingent of security forces outside his Nigeen residence as the illegal and unauthorised detention of my client has curtailed his life & liberty guaranteed to him under Article 21 besides you are called upon not to impose restrictions upon my client to participate in religious ceremonies/activities and not to prevent him to preach his religions and to perform his religious duties particularly to participate in congregational prayers on Fridays at Jamia Masjid, Nowhatta, Srinagar.”
It further reads, “If my client finds no prompt and positive response to this legal notice, he shall be constrained and compelled to file the appropriate proceedings or writ in the competent court of jurisdiction which he has a right to do and move for the redressal of his genuine and legitimate grievances and for the protection of his fundamental rights guaranteed particularly under Article 21 and; Articles 25 to 28 of the constitution.”
