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A bunch of Habeas Corpus petitions has been filed in the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir which seek the release of 16 senior leaders of National Conference which is a political party, from detention at their residing houses. The petitions have been filed by President Farooq Abdullah and Vice President Omar Abdullah who have the contention that such detention was a brazen violation of their right to liberty under the Constitution of India.
On the 13thof July, the party issued a statement saying that Habeas Corpus petitions filed in the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir under Article 226 challenge “the unconstitutional and illegal house detention” of senior leaders and functionaries” since August 5.
National Conference General Secretary Ali Mohammed Sagar, party’s chief spokesman Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi, provincial president Nasir Aslam Wani, senior leader Aga Syed Mehmood, among many others, are being detained at their residences wrongfully without serving them with proper grounds for such action with police personnel stationed outside their houses.
The Abdullahs, who were taken into preventive custody on the night of August 4 and about 5 hours before Jammu and Kashmir’s special status was revoked by the Centre by the abrogation of Article 370 and then detained under the Public Safety Act for several months, has pleaded to be set at liberty.
After being released from police custody they were put under house arrest which has been continuous and arbitrary and in the name of peace and tranquillity. 99% Habeas Corpus petitions eat dust in the Jammu and Kashmir valley where the government has seen to have accumulated power and are trying to maintain a strict autocratic order.
“Unfortunately that was not to be. The house detentions without any administrative orders are unlawful, undermining due respect to human rights and individual liberty,” he said.“This was the only recourse left to us. We are hopeful that the court will uphold the civil liberties of our colleagues most of whom have not been keeping well,” the spokesman said.
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