Para being tortured: Mehbooba

Srinagar, February 3

PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday alleged that her party’s youth wing president Waheed Para, arrested by the J&K Police, was being kept under “inhuman conditions and tortured” to compel him to admit to false charges.

In a series of tweets, Mehbooba said it was “shameful and appalling” and that such actions discredit and bring disrepute to the institutions meant to uphold law and order. “J&K CID has joined the list of Central agencies that work to terrorise Kashmiris & falsely implicate them…. Waheed is being persecuted & tortured to admit the false allegations. Since an admission didn’t happen he is being kept under inhuman conditions,” she alleged. — PTI

Solidarity with agitating farmers

Taking to Twitter to express solidarity with the farmers agitating against the new agri laws, Mehbooba said while concertina wires and trenches around farmer protest sites have shocked everyone, the sight is far too familiar for the people of Kashmir.