Detained PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti Shifted To Government Quarters In Srinagar After Daughter's Appeal

The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Friday shifted detained PDP leader and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti after her daughter urged the officials to shift Mufti to a place equipped to deal with the Valley’s harsh winter.

In her letter to Srinagar deputy commissioner Iltija Mufti said that the Centre will be responsible if anything happens to Mehbooba.

I’ve repeatedly raised concerns about the wellbeing of my mother. I wrote to DC Srinagar a month ago to shift her someplace equipped for the harsh winter. If anything happens to her, the Indian government will be responsible, Iltija said in a tweet on Tuesday using her mother’s Twitter handle.

She also posted a picture of her hand-written letter to the deputy commissioner.

As you are aware my mother Ms Mehbooba Mufti, former CM J&K has been jailed since 5 August. A doctor recently ran multiple tests on her as she was not keeping well. As per those tests, her Vitamin D, hemoglobin and Calcium levels are low, Iltija Mufti wrote.

She said Mehbooba Mufti should be shifted to another location more suitable for the harsh winter.

The accommodation she is currently lodged in is not equipped for Kashmir’s harsh winters. Keeping in mind these points, I would like to request you to shift her to another location more suitable. I hope you will address this problem urgently, the PDP leader’s daughter said.

Mehbooba is among the many political leaders, including erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir’s former chief ministers Farooq Abdullah and his son Omar Abdullah, who have been under detention in Srinagar since August 5, the day the Centre announced the abrogation of Article 370 provisions and the decision to bifurcate the state into two union territories