The government late Tuesday evening extended Mufti’s detention by three months under the Public Safety Act hours before her confinement was to end, officials said.
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‘Unbelievably cruel’: Omar Abdullah slams extension of Mehbooba Mufti’s detention

The extension of former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti’s custody on Tuesday evoked a pointy response from her political rival Omar Abdullah of teh nationwide Conference who mentioned it was an unbelievably merciless and retrograde choice.

“Unbelievably cruel & retrograde decision to extend @MehboobaMufti’s detention. Nothing she has done or said in any way justifies the way the Indian state has treated her & the others detained,” he tweeted.

“For a government that is making tall claims about normality in J&K the last few days coupled with the extension of Ms Mufti’s detention is proof enough that Modi ji has single handedly pushed J&K back decades,” he mentioned in one other tweet.

The authorities late Tuesday night prolonged Mufti’s detention by three months below the Public Safety Act hours earlier than her confinement was to finish, officers mentioned.

Srinagar’s district Justice of the Peace handed over the order for her prolonged custody at her residence.

Mufti who heads the Peoples’ Democratic Party was initially detained together with a number of different leaders together with two former CMS – Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah on August 5 final 12 months when the Centre abrogated particular standing of the erstwhile state.

She has already spent eight months in detention. Farooq and Omar Abdullah had been launched in March.

Sources mentioned the federal government additionally prolonged the detention of National Conference basic secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar and PDP Leader Sartaaj Madni by three months below PSA. They have additionally bene below detention since August 5 2019.

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