SRINAGAR: Former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti’s daughter Iltija Mufti on Tuesday said that Government of India (GoI) would be responsible “if anything happens” to her mother, whose health she said was falling under
dentition.
Mehbooba is under detention since August 5 when GoI special status of Jammu and Kashmir was abrogated.
Mufti tweeted through the official twitter handle of her mother, stating that Mehbooba’s Vitamin D, Haemoglobin and Calcium levels have been found abnormal. She said that she had repeatedly apprised authorities about the
well being of her mother and asked for shifting her mother to some other place.
“I have repeatedly raised to the concerned about the well being of my mother. I wrote to DC Srinagar to shift her to some place equipped for harsh winter. If anything happens, Indian government will be responsible,” she
tweeted.
Speaking to Kashmir Reader on phone, Iltija said that, after seeing her mother’s condition, a doctor had advised for a better location.
“The place she has been put in hardly gets any sunlight,” she said. “She immediately needs to be shifted from a place where she has been given the treatment of a hardened criminal.”
Iltija alleged that she was even threatened by the government not to speak about the ill health of her mother. The authorities, she said, told her to keep mum if she wants her mother out.
“But I will speak. I am not scared of the goons who run this country. I will express myself and fight to get mother shifted. She needs to be treated like a human because she has right for the same,” she added.
In another tweet, Iltija shared a letter written to DC Srinagar in which she had asked the government to shift her mother.
“A doctor recently ran multiple tests on her as she wasn’t not keeping well. As per those tests, her Vitamin D, haemoglobin and calcium levels are low. The accommodation she is currently lodged in is not equipped for
Kashmir’s harsh winter. Keeping in mind these points I would request you to shift her to another location more suitable. I hope you will address this problem,” the letter read.

Junaid Nabi Bazaz