Jammu and Kashmir: Placed under house arrest, claims PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti
Jammu and Kashmir: PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday claimed that she had been put under house arrest while two of her party colleagues were arrested by the police.
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti said her party chief spokesperson Suhail Bukhari and spokesperson Najmu Saqib were arrested.
“Again under house arrest & PDPs @SAAQQIIB & @Suhail_Bukhari too have been arrested,” she wrote on Twitter and posted pictures of the locked gate of her residence.
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Referring to the Hyderpora encounter, the PDP chief alleged that the “pattern of using innocent civilians as human shields” and then denying their families the right to a decent burial shows that the Centre had “plumbed new depths of inhumanity”.
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A controversy has erupted over Monday's encounter in Hyderpora following conflicting claims about the two deceased as their family members contested the police's charge that they were “terror associates”.
The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Thursday ordered a magisterial probe into the Hyderpora encounter.
- PTC News with agency inputs
