Tremendous pressure to withdraw petition in HC on issuance of passport: Iltija Mufti; police refutes

Express News Service

SRINAGAR: Iltija Mufti, the daughter of PDP chief and former J&Okay Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, who has been granted a country-specific two-year passport, has alleged that she is coping with tremendous pressure to withdraw a petition from the J&Okay High Court on the issuance of the passport. However, J&Okay police have refuted her allegations.

“The passport issued to me by the Regional Passport Officer on April 5 is valid for the UAE only with two-year validity,” Iltija knowledgeable reporters in Srinagar.

She talked about she had utilized for a passport in June ultimate 12 months after the expiry of her passport. After being denied her passport, she approached J&Okay High Court the place the case is being heard.

Alleging that the judiciary was misled, Iltija talked about, “The Regional Passport Officer informed the court that they have issued the passport to me. The Deputy Solicitor General of India Shamsi told the judge that the petition should be dismissed as passport has been provided. But what kind of passport is this (country-specific and valid for two years instead of 10 years)”.

“I am a law-abiding Indian citizen. I have not broken any law. And for issuing this two-year passport, the Official Secrets Act was invoked against me. This Act is invoked against a person found involved in espionage,” she talked about.

“Am I a terrorist? Am I anti-national? If I speak out against the central government, does it mean that I am attacking the country? Expressing myself is my fundamental right as an Indian citizen,” she extra talked about.

Taking a dig at authorities for issuing her country-specific passport, Iltija talked about, “Right to travel abroad is a fundamental right and I am being deprived of that. No agency can snatch this right. It is happening with the daughter of an ex-CM. I am not entitled to a passport because I am an ex-CM’s daughter but entitled to the passport for being a law-abiding Indian citizen”.

“If this is happening with me, then the plight of normal Kashmiris can only be imagined,” she talked about.

Iltija, who was politically very energetic put up Article 370 revocation and arrest of her mother, alleged that her lawyer is being pressurized to withdraw the petition.

However, she asserted that she shouldn’t be going to withdraw this petition.

“I am unable to withdraw the petition no matter us coping with tremendous pressure. I’ll proceed to wrestle inside the courtroom and I’ve full faith inside the judiciary that they might problem the orders for issuance of my passport,” she talked about.

Iltija accused J&Okay Police’s CID of having fun with a foul operate and criminalising staple gadgets akin to passport issuance in Kashmir on the behest of the Central authorities. J&Okay police, nonetheless, have rejected her allegations.

In a press launch, police talked about it has come all through a variety of objects inside the media suggesting that its intelligence and counterintelligence wing amongst totally different points is pressurizing litigants to withdraw from the tactic of redressing their grievances by courts of laws.

“Ordinarily, law enforcement agencies do not rush to the public to discuss its work processes and procedures, especially those that are legally ordained to be discreet in the public interest,” it talked about.

“Since some of the published items contain outrightly false assertions attributed to figures with the public profile it has become necessary to point out the untruthfulness of the claims. On learning that accusations have been made that CID of J&K Police has pressurized a litigant to refrain from litigating in the High Court in connection with her passport-related grievances, a quick internal audit was carried out. J&K Police can affirm that the claim of such pressure is completely false,” it talked about.

Police extra talked about officers are being detailed to methodology the aggrieved particular person and confirm particulars – who pressurized, when, the place and under what circumstances so that the quick inside inquiry if found inadequate can be expanded to take applicable disciplinary movement in opposition to the delinquent.

“Unfortunately, the public person has apparently projected her personal grievance as also to be the grievance of the public in general in Kashmir. This is very problematic. J&K Police and its affiliates are public institutions and designed to serve public interest. Denigrating the community’s own institutions for grievances that are personal on the basis of false accusations is self harm,” it talked about.

The police talked about in 2020  out of 77686 passport verifications obtained, 77644 (99.95%) had been cleared. “Similarly, in 2021: out of 75714 passport verifications received, 75176 (99.68%) were cleared and in 2022 out of 134315 passport verifications received, 128939 (99.61%) were cleared”.

SRINAGAR: Iltija Mufti, the daughter of PDP chief and former J&Okay Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, who has been granted a country-specific two-year passport, has alleged that she is coping with tremendous pressure to withdraw a petition from the J&Okay High Court on the issuance of the passport. However, J&Okay police have refuted her allegations.

“The passport issued to me by the Regional Passport Officer on April 5 is valid for the UAE only with two-year validity,” Iltija knowledgeable reporters in Srinagar.

She talked about she had utilized for a passport in June ultimate 12 months after the expiry of her passport. After being denied her passport, she approached J&Okay High Court the place the case is being heard.googletag.cmd.push(carry out() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Alleging that the judiciary was misled, Iltija talked about, “The Regional Passport Officer informed the court that they have issued the passport to me. The Deputy Solicitor General of India Shamsi told the judge that the petition should be dismissed as passport has been provided. But what kind of passport is this (country-specific and valid for two years instead of 10 years)”.

“I am a law-abiding Indian citizen. I have not broken any law. And for issuing this two-year passport, the Official Secrets Act was invoked against me. This Act is invoked against a person found involved in espionage,” she talked about.

“Am I a terrorist? Am I anti-national? If I speak out against the central government, does it mean that I am attacking the country? Expressing myself is my fundamental right as an Indian citizen,” she extra talked about.

Taking a dig at authorities for issuing her country-specific passport, Iltija talked about, “Right to travel abroad is a fundamental right and I am being deprived of that. No agency can snatch this right. It is happening with the daughter of an ex-CM. I am not entitled to a passport because I am an ex-CM’s daughter but entitled to the passport for being a law-abiding Indian citizen”.

“If this is happening with me, then the plight of normal Kashmiris can only be imagined,” she talked about.

Iltija, who was politically very energetic put up Article 370 revocation and arrest of her mother, alleged that her lawyer is being pressurized to withdraw the petition.

However, she asserted that she shouldn’t be going to withdraw this petition.

“I am unable to withdraw the petition no matter us coping with tremendous pressure. I’ll proceed to wrestle inside the courtroom and I’ve full faith inside the judiciary that they might problem the orders for issuance of my passport,” she talked about.

Iltija accused J&Okay Police’s CID of having fun with a foul operate and criminalising staple gadgets akin to passport issuance in Kashmir on the behest of the Central authorities. J&Okay police, nonetheless, have rejected her allegations.

In a press launch, police talked about it has come all through a variety of objects inside the media suggesting that its intelligence and counterintelligence wing amongst totally different points is pressurizing litigants to withdraw from the tactic of redressing their grievances by courts of laws.

“Ordinarily, law enforcement agencies do not rush to the public to discuss its work processes and procedures, especially those that are legally ordained to be discreet in the public interest,” it talked about.

“Since some of the published items contain outrightly false assertions attributed to figures with the public profile it has become necessary to point out the untruthfulness of the claims. On learning that accusations have been made that CID of J&K Police has pressurized a litigant to refrain from litigating in the High Court in connection with her passport-related grievances, a quick internal audit was carried out. J&K Police can affirm that the claim of such pressure is completely false,” it talked about.

Police extra talked about officers are being detailed to methodology the aggrieved particular person and confirm particulars – who pressurized, when, the place and under what circumstances so that the quick inside inquiry if found inadequate can be expanded to take applicable disciplinary movement in opposition to the delinquent.

“Unfortunately, the public person has apparently projected her personal grievance as also to be the grievance of the public in general in Kashmir. This is very problematic. J&K Police and its affiliates are public institutions and designed to serve public interest. Denigrating the community’s own institutions for grievances that are personal on the basis of false accusations is self harm,” it talked about.

The police talked about in 2020  out of 77686 passport verifications obtained, 77644 (99.95%) had been cleared. “Similarly, in 2021: out of 75714 passport verifications received, 75176 (99.68%) were cleared and in 2022 out of 134315 passport verifications received, 128939 (99.61%) were cleared”.