NC leaders can meet Omar, Farooq Abdullah: High Court to J&K govt.
By:- Syed Ali Taher Abedi
Jammu & Kashmir High Court has issued orders allowing on certain conditions, two MP’s of the National Conference (NC) Party to meet their leaders Farooq and Omer Abdulla, but on certain conditions including that they would not speak to the press about the “details and deliberations with detained leaders”.
The NC leaders Akber Lone and Hasnain Masoodi had petitioned court saying they have not been allowed to meet their leaders, Farooq and Umer Abdullah.
Justice Sanjeev Kumar bench had directed Deputy Commissioner, Shahid Iqbal Choudhary, to organise and convey the dates of meeting, to Hasnain Masoodi and Akber Lone. He strictly barred them from sharing details and deliberations with the detained leaders”.
The order of the court clearly mentioned that their meeting with their party President and Vice President is restricted to a courtesy call and the wellbeing of the aforesaid two persons;
The petitioners had alleged that their party’s two top functionaries had been under house arrest since the abrogation of Article 370 on 5th August 2019 and were not permitted to meet any party worker or even the relatives.
The court had also mentioned that “It would be appropriate if the petitioners are permitted to meet the aforesaid persons separately on different occasions, either on the same day or on a different day”
Top political leaders of the different parties including Farooq Abdullah and Omer Abdullah, were among hundreds of people detained as a lock down and communication blackout was imposed in Jammu & Kashmir on August 5 2019.
The curbs were imposed on the entire valley to prevent protests after the Centre abrogated constitutional provision under Article 370 that gave Jammu and Kashmir a measure of autonomy and prevented non-residents from buying property and getting government jobs there.
Both the NC leaders were under house arrest since 5th August 2019 in a government building that has been declared as sub-jail. Only some of the close relatives were allowed to meet those detained leaders.
