Mehbooba Mufti on Yasin Malik’s detention: ‘You can imprison a person, not his ideas’
Mehbooba Mufti.
Peoples Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti, on Saturday, sparked a controversy when she questioned the legal grounds of detaining Jamaat-e-Islami cadres and Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front leader Yasin Malik. She said, “You can imprison a person but not his ideas.”
Calling the detention an “arbitrary move”, Mufti tweeted: “In the past 24 hours, Hurriyat leaders and workers of Jamaat organization have been arrested. Fail to understand such an arbitrary move which only precipitate matters in J&K. Under what legal grounds are their arrests justified? You can imprison a person but not his ideas.”
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 J&K. Under what legal grounds are their arrests justified? You can imprison a person but not his ideas.
— Mehbooba Mufti (@MehboobaMufti) February 23, 2019
The arrests of Kashmiri separatists, on Friday night, comes ahead of the hearing on Article 35A in Supreme Court, which is likely to take place on Monday.
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