SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Police has opposed giving passport to former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti citing “adversarial report” in opposition to her, officers mentioned on Thursday.
A report has been submitted to the Jammu and Kashmir Excessive Courtroom which is listening to a petition filed by Mehbooba over the delay in clearing her passport software.
Mehbooba had utilized for a contemporary passport in December final yr after the earlier one expired on Could 31, however the software has not been cleared until date within the absence of a police verification report.
The officers mentioned that “an adversarial report” has been filed in opposition to her by the Legal Investigation Division (CID), however refused to elaborate saying the matter can be taken up earlier than the excessive court docket.
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Listening to the petition on March 23, Further Solicitor Normal T M Shamsi, representing the Ministry of Exterior Affairs and the Regional Passport workplace, sought a brief adjournment after the counsel representing the Jammu and Kashmir CID knowledgeable Justice Ali Mohammed Magrey that the verification report on her passport software had been submitted on March 18.
Nonetheless, Shamsi knowledgeable the court docket that he had acquired a communication from the Passport Officer in Srinagar on March 22 and the contents “reveal that the verification of the petitioner is below course of and as quickly as verification course of is accomplished, the requisite report can be submitted instantly for additional plan of action”.
“Communication additional reveals that CID verification report in respect of the petitioner remains to be awaited from the JK CID. Copy of communication so produced by Shamsi is taken on file,” Justice Magrey mentioned whereas posting the matter for additional listening to on March 29.
The counsel for Mehbooba had submitted that the stand taken by the Regional Passport Officer, Srinagar as regards to non-availability of report from the JK CID, has delayed issuance of passport in favour of the petitioner.
Within the petition, Mehbooba mentioned her passport expired on Could 31 final yr and accordingly she utilized for issuance of a contemporary passport earlier than the authorities involved on December 11, 2020.
Mehbooba’s counsel submitted that based on directions issued by the Ministry of Exterior Affairs, the passport of a person is to be issued inside 30 days however within the on the spot case, regardless of lapse of three months, passport has not been issued to the petitioner because of the pending police verification.
The 61-year-old politician was put below preventive custody on August 5, 2019, the day the central authorities revoked the particular standing of Jammu and Kashmir below Article 370 and bifurcated the erstwhile state into union territories.
She was launched in October final yr after the Union Territory administration revoked the fees below the Public Security Act in opposition to her.
