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SRINAGAR: The Public Security Law against former Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti, was extended for three months on Tuesday, authorities said.
In a brief order, the Srinagar district magistrate handed over continued custody to his residence hours before his current term under the PSA expired.
She was initially detained on August 5 last year when the Center repealed the special status of the former state and forked it into two union territories: Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir.
After spending more than eight months detained in two government facilities that were designated as sub-prisons, Mufti was transferred to her home on April 7 as partial relief for her.
Mufti heads the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) that was in power in Jammu and Kashmir in alliance with the BJP until June 2018.
Initially, she was placed in preventive custody. Later, on February 5 of this year, she was slapped with the PSA along with Omar Abdullah, who was released in March. Farooq Abdullah had been released early last month.
Mufti was previously housed in a government guesthouse in Chashma Shahi and a bunglow on Maulana Azad Road near Lal Chowk.
Daughter of Mehbooba, Iltija filed a habeas corpus petition with the Supreme Court in February to challenge her mother’s arrest.
A bank of three judges had issued a notice to the Jammu and Kashmir government requesting their response on the guilty plea and published the matter for a hearing on March 18. However, the request was not resumed due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Habeas corpus is a document that seeks the production of a person who is supposed to be illegally detained in court.
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In a brief order, the Srinagar district magistrate handed over continued custody to his residence hours before his current term under the PSA expired.
She was initially detained on August 5 last year when the Center repealed the special status of the former state and forked it into two union territories: Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir.
After spending more than eight months detained in two government facilities that were designated as sub-prisons, Mufti was transferred to her home on April 7 as partial relief for her.
Mufti heads the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) that was in power in Jammu and Kashmir in alliance with the BJP until June 2018.
Initially, she was placed in preventive custody. Later, on February 5 of this year, she was slapped with the PSA along with Omar Abdullah, who was released in March. Farooq Abdullah had been released early last month.
Mufti was previously housed in a government guesthouse in Chashma Shahi and a bunglow on Maulana Azad Road near Lal Chowk.
Daughter of Mehbooba, Iltija filed a habeas corpus petition with the Supreme Court in February to challenge her mother’s arrest.
A bank of three judges had issued a notice to the Jammu and Kashmir government requesting their response on the guilty plea and published the matter for a hearing on March 18. However, the request was not resumed due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Habeas corpus is a document that seeks the production of a person who is supposed to be illegally detained in court.
