The police statement came hours after PDP president Mehbooba Mufti’s daughter Iltija Mufti accused the Regional Passport Office in J&K as well as the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of depriving ordinary citizens from “exercising their right to own a passport and travel.”
The Jammu and Kashmir Police Friday rebutted claims that its intelligence and counterintelligence wing is pressuring litigants to withdraw from the process of redressing their grievances through courts of law.
The police statement came hours after PDP president Mehbooba Mufti’s daughter Iltija Mufti accused the Regional Passport Office in J&K as well as the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of depriving ordinary citizens from “exercising their right to own a passport and travel.”
Iltija, who was on Wednesday issued a “country-specific passport” for two years to allow her to study in the UAE, also accused the agencies of misleading the court and “lying to the judiciary.” She said she will challenge the “conditional” passport in court. The next date of hearing in her case is April 26.
Later in the day, the J&K Police issued a statement saying they “can affirm that the claim of such pressure is completely false”.
Without naming Iltija, the police said: “Unfortunately, the public person has apparently projected her personal grievance as also to be the grievance of the public in general in Kashmir.”
“Nevertheless, officers are being detailed to approach the aggrieved person and ascertain details…,” the police added.