Mehbooba Mufti claims ‘house arrest’, Srinagar Police clarifies ‘free to travel’

Mehbooba Mufti, former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, has claimed she was under house arrest and was not allowed to visit Pattan to attend a worker’s wedding. She linked her ‘house arrest’ to union home minister Ami t Shah’s visit to J&K. However, the Srinagar Police refuted her claims.

“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 can’t even imagine the plight of a commoner,” PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti wrote, tagging Amit Shah and Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor.
The Srinagar Police refuted her claim and said, “It is clarified that no restriction of any kind (of) travel to Pattan, travel to Pattan was at 1 pm as intimated to us,” an official statement read. On a photo shared by the PDP leader, the Srinagar Police further wrote that the photos were of “inside of the gate with a lock of residents who stay in the bungalow. There is no lock or any restrictions. She is free to travel.”

The PDP leader continued her attack, “I was informed last night by SP Baramulla @bhatray that I wouldn’t be allowed to travel to Pattan. Today @JmuKmrPolice have themselves locked my gates from inside & are now lying through their teeth. Sad that law enforcement agencies are brazenly trying to cover up their tracks,” she tweeted.
Meanwhile, Home Minister Amit Shah is on a three-day visit to J&K. He is set to host a massive rally in Baramulla on Wednesday, one of the largest since the scrapping of Article 370 three years ago.