Hurriyat chairman and the Kashmir Valley’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Saturday sent a legal notice to the Jammu and Kashmir government over his continuous detention at his residence in Srinagar.
The Mirwaiz’s lawyer, in the legal notice addressed to the J&K Chief Secretary, said, “The ironical part is that my client has been detained illegally without serving of any order of detention upon him, he is not allowed to move outside his residence, as a large contingent of police personnel have been deployed therein to curb his movement, he has not been even informed as to why he has been detained nor has any ground of detention been provided to him.”
The lawyer said that the Mirwaiz’s liberty has been curtailed in an arbitrary manner. “The illegal and unwarranted detention is against the basic structure of the principles of natural justice,” the legal notice said.
