Omar demands Mehbooba Mufti be set free

National Conference (NC) vice-president Omar Abdullah onTuesday demanded that PDP president Mehbooba Mufti be set free, saying merelyshifting her home while keeping her under detention was a cop out.

Mehbooba, the former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir,who has been detained under the Public Safety Act (PSA), was shifted from amake-shift jail to her ‘Fairview’ residence on Gupkar road here on Tuesday.

   

In a tweet, Omar said,”@MehboobaMufti must be set free.Shifting her home while continuing to keep her detained is a cop out”.

The Jammu and Kashmir People’s Conference (JKPC) chiefspokesperson Junaid Azim Mattu said the continued detention of Mehbooba, JKPCchairman Sajad Lone — who is under house arrest — and other mainstreampoliticians was “authoritarian”.

“The continued detention of @JKPC_ Chairman @sajadloneand @jkpdp President @MehboobaMufti and a number of senior mainstream leadersis authoritarian. They’ve been under detention for more than 8 months now- notallowed access to the media, to their colleagues and their relatives,” hesaid on Twitter.

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