Srinagar, Dec 8: PDP chief and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday said that she has been placed under “illegal detention” to prevent her from visiting Budgam where “hundreds of families were evicted from their homes”.
Being a member of the PAGD, Mehbooba also tweeted a video in which she can be seen knocking the door of her residence and asking the security personnel outside the door to open it. “What is happening? I have to go outside. Open the door,” she is heard saying.
In a tweet, Mehbooba said: “Illegal detention has become GOIs favourite go to method for muzzling any form of opposition. Ive been detained once again because I wanted to visit Budgam where hundreds of families were evicted from their homes (sic).”
There was no response from the police so far to the claims made by the former chief minister of the erstwhile state.