Crackdown on Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir 'arbitrary': Mehbooba Mufti

By Aakanksha Raghuvanshi
(PTI desk)

Feb 23, 2019

03:26 pm

What's the story

PDP President Mehbooba Mufti today questioned the legality of the crackdown on Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir leaders, saying the "arbitrary" move will only "precipitate matters" in the state. The former Jammu & Kashmir chief minister was reacting to the government crackdown on separatists and Jamaat-e-Islami which began yesterday night. "Fail to understand such an arbitrary move," Mehbooba said in a Twitter post. Here's more.

Twitter Post

You can imprison a person but not his ideas: Mehbooba

In the past 24 hours, Hurriyat leaders workers of Jamaat organisation have been arrested. Fail to understand such an arbitrary move which will only precipitate matters in JK. Under what legal grounds are their arrests justified? You can imprison a person but not his ideas.

— Mehbooba Mufti (@MehboobaMufti) February 23, 2019

Details

Over two dozen Jamaat leaders including its chief detained

JKLF Chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik and over two dozen Jamaat leaders, including its chief Abdul Hamid Fayaz, have already been detained. Others detained include Ameer Jama'at, advocate Zahid Ali (spokesperson), Ghulam Qadir Lone (former secretary general), Abdur Rouf (Ameer Zila Islamabad). The Center has rushed 100 additional companies of paramilitary forces to Kashmir without assigning any reason for the heavy deployment.