‘Faith in judiciary restored’: Mehbooba Mufti’s daughter on SC’s order

New Delhi | Jagran News Desk: PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti’s daughter Iltija Javed, who on Thursday was allowed by the Supreme Court to visit her mother in Srinagar, welcomed the court’s verdict and said that her ‘faith in the judiciary is restored’.

“When the government of India doesn't give me my fundamental right, my civil liberties, I have no other alternative but to knock at the doors of the judiciary which I have immense faith in. My faith in the judiciary has been restored after today's verdict,” she said in Chennai.

Mehbooba Mufti, a former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, was arrested along with hundreds of other politicians on August 4 as a measure to prevent any trouble or protests over the government's decision to end special status to the state under Article 370 and split it into two union territories.

Iltijia had moved to Supreme Court on Wednesday seeking directions to the authorities to allow her to meet her mother, who is under detention following the abrogation of Article 370 from the state.

She had submitted that she is concerned about her mother's health as she has not met her in a month.

“I was placed under detention as well. From 6th until the 22nd when I left for Chennai, I was placed under detention. And through this period, not a day went by that I didn't ask the authorities to meet my mother or just talk to her on phone. But all these requests were turned down,” she said.

“This time when I go, I will not let them harass me or intimidate me as I have the backing of the Supreme Court. They can't harass me the way they did those two weeks I was in Kashmir,” she added.

Earlier, she had written a letter to Home Minister Amit Shah over the restriction in Jammu and Kashmir and said that while the country was celebrating Independence Day, Kashmiri people were being "caged like animals" and "deprived of basic human rights".

She also said she was informed by security personnel that she had been detained because of her interviews to media, and was "threatened with dire consequences".