The Supreme Court will on Tuesday (September 29, 2020) take up a petition seeking the release of former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti.The plea has been filed by Mufti`s daughter Iltija Mufti.It may be noted that the Centre had extended PDP chief Mufti`s detention under Public Safety Act (PSA) by three months in July.The PDP president was arrested on the eve of the abrogation of Article 370 which removed Jammu and Kashmir’s special status and bifurcated it into two Union Territories on August 5 last year.Her daughter Iltija, in her plea, has stated that the dossier for detention are “stale, vague and that they suffer from non-application of mind, malice in law and that they violate the provisions of Section 8(3)(b) of the PSA”.”The detention order based on stale grounds have become staler even more since the petition was filed and the respondent administration has continued to act with total non-application of mind and the malice in law has only been reinforced and aggravated in confirming and extending the order of detention for further periods,” the plea stated.Mufti and many other leaders of Kashmir, including Farooq Abdullah, were put in detention following the abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution that accorded special status to the erstwhile state.Earlier, the former J&K CM`s detention was extended on May 5 for three months.Farooq, and son Omar Abdullah, were released from detention in March.
