Peoples Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday alleged that she had been “placed under house arrest as usual” while she was trying to visit the family of a teenaged boy who was killed in an alleged staged encounter. Athar Mushtaq was killed in an alleged gunfight in Srinagar’s Lawaypora neighbourhood on December 30 along with two others.
Mufti accused the Narendra Modi government of putting up a facade of normalcy in Jammu and Kashmir, where opposition to the Centre has deepened after it revoked the region’s semi-autonomy in 2019. She said she was being stopped from visiting different areas of the Valley without being informed about the reasons.
“Placed under house arrest as usual for trying to visit the family of Athar Mushtaq killed allegedly in a fake encounter,” Mufti wrote on Twitter. “His father was booked under UAPA [Unlawful Activities Prevention Act] for demanding his dead body. This the normalcy GOI [government of India] wants to…