Overview

• The PDP chief urged the formation of an all-party delegation to inspect jails across India holding J&K detainees and pressed the chief minister to raise the issue with Union home minister Amit Shah.
• Her demands included local lodgement of detainees, time-bound trials, mandatory production at hearings, bail as the norm, and parole, furlough, and medical bail treated as rights with full implementation of jail manuals.
• Mufti cited deteriorating health cases such as Shabir Shah and Jamaat-e-Islami chief Dr. Abdul Hameed Fayaz, saying families had to approach courts for medical treatment.
• Police stopped the PDP march outside the party headquarters near Sher-e-Kashmir Park in Srinagar and prevented protesters from moving ahead.
• She quoted figures of over 5,000 preventive arrests since 2019 and 1,122 prisoners shifted outside J&K, while there was no immediate sign of transfers or policy change following the protest.