Mufti seeks details on detainees since Aug. 5

New Delhi, Sept. 20: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti has asked the government to provide, “preferably within three days”, details about people detained since August 5, including children and women, and those who are lodged in jails outside the state.

Ms Mufti, who is also under detention following the abrogation of special status given to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 and its bifurcation into Union territories, sent the communication through daughter Iltija who met her recently.

A letter seeking the information was written by Iltija, and was

addressed to the Union Home Secretary and Home Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir. She said her mother has instructed her to seek the information.

“My mother Ms Mufti has been detained since the evening of August 5. I was able to meet her in the last week a few times in private...In my meetings with her, my mother expressed concern at the number of detention and arrests that have taken place in the state in the aftermath of the recent constitutional orders issued by the President and the passage of the Reorganisation Act,” Iltija said in the letter which was also posted on Mehbooba Mufti’s Twitter handle. She said her mother’s Twitter handle is now operated by her.

She said her mother, as chief of a major political party and the state’s most recent chief minister, has instructed her to seek certain information from the government.