Book Mehbooba Mufti for treason, seeks petition filed in Bihar court
India: A petition has been filed in a court in Bihar praying that head of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mehbooba Mufti be booked for treason following her recent comments backing restoration of Article 370 in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) and resumption of dialogue with Pakistan.
A social activist, Chandra Kishore Parashar, filed the petition before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate claiming that Mufti’s remarks “before and after her recent meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi” caused him “extreme distress”.
Modi had recently met leaders of the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) to discuss prospects of holding assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir.
The petitioner has invoked IPC Sections 109, 110 and 111 (abetment of an offence), 120 (B) (criminal conspiracy), 124 (waging war against Government of India), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 504 (insult with intent to provoke breach of peace).
