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| Govt exposes 'jail drama' by Kashmir politicians relaxing in cozy rooms | | Not under detention but netas pretend to be caged | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 4: The statement of the Jammu and Kashmir administration that it had not put under house arrest the brother and brother-in-law of a former Chief Minister has exposed the apparent drama of such politicians who had been claiming to be caged, when actually they are relaxing at their cozy homes.
On October 23, the government told the court that it had not caged the twin leaders and one more family member of theirs. The government claim has left the netas red-faced as they had been telling people that they couldn't take to streets against the abrogation of the special status for having been pushed to confinement.
While one of them runs a political party, which had overthrown National Conference in 1980s, the other one had been a minister during the NC regimes.
In their petition before the court, the politicians had pleaded that they had been detained and kept under house arrest "unlawfully" since August 5, the day Government of India abrogated the special status and bifurcated the state into two union territories.
The netas had contended that their detention was made "without any just cause or reason violating with impunity their fundamental rights guaranteed under the constitution of India."
"Our liberty has been curbed and jeopardized," the petitioners had said.
The government statement had exposed their claims. "There are many such so called leaders who were not been detained but are falsely making people believe that they are under house arrest. The reality is that such leaders know that if they protest they will be sent to jail and that is something they actually want to avoid," quipped a senior official on the condition of anonymity.
Very recently, some women from the same family had staged protests in Srinagar following which they were detained and released only when they filed the personal bond or not resorting any such activity in future.
Sources said the protests by the women from the Abdullah family had raised questions as to why other leaders from the family had been silent for over two months.
Despite repeated attempts the leaders in question couldn't be contacted for comments. |
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