Iltija Mufti, the daughter of former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party leader Mehbooba Mufti, on Wednesday again approached the Supreme Court against the “illegal and questionable” detention of her mother as well as its extension, Hindustan Times reported. She demanded the cancellation of detention orders and a compensation for her mother.
Last week, Iltija Mufti had filed a habeas corpus petition challenging her mother’s detention under the Public Safety Act and the two extensions in May and July.
Iltija Mufti told the top court that the dossier and the grounds of her mother’s detention were “stale, vague and that they suffer from non-application of mind, malice in law and that they violate the provisions of sections 8(3)(b) of the PSA”. She added that her mother, an important opposition leader, had been “jailed” for over a year…