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Mehbooba Mufti Leads Srinagar Protest Urging Return of Kashmiri Prisoners to Local Jails

The chief minister said the issue must be taken to Delhi and urged her to meet the home minister.

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Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti addressing a press conference in Srinagar on Monday. (ANI Photo)
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Overview

  • Jammu and Kashmir Police stopped the PDP march outside the party office in Srinagar as Mehbooba Mufti pressed for detainees’ transfer or release.
  • Mufti asked Omar Abdullah to send an all-party or ministerial team to inspect jails across India and to seek transfers in a meeting with Amit Shah.
  • The PDP outlined reforms including bail as the norm, time‑bound trials, mandatory production at hearings, parole and furlough as rights, medical bail, and full compliance with jail manuals.
  • Mufti cited seriously ill detainees such as Shabir Shah and Jamaat‑e‑Islami chief Dr. Abdul Hameed Fayaz and contrasted denied parole to them with parole granted to convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.
  • The party quoted post‑2019 tallies of thousands of preventive arrests and 1,122 prisoners moved outside J&K, figures reported as the PDP’s claims, and no transfer decisions were announced on Monday.