Srinagar: Former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday termed arrest of Hurriyat Conference leaders and workers of Jamaat organisation as arbitrary and that she fails to understand the move which “will only precipitate matters in J&K”.
While Government of India has rushed 100 companies of paramilitary forces, dozens of Jamaat-e-Islami leaders and activists have been arrested besides Mohammad Yasin Malik, the chief of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front.
“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,” Mehbboba, who is chief of PDP, tweeted. “Under what legal grounds are their arrests justified? You can imprison a person but not his ideas.”
