Former chief minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday asked the National Investigating Agency (NIA) to bring all the facts pertaining to their investigations in the State in public domain.
"Bringing facts about its investigations in the State into public is all the more necessary in view of the remarks made by a Division bench of Delhi High Court in its 40-page judgement while disposing off a case related to such investigations a week ago," said Ms. Mufti in a statement issued in Srinagar.
In a major crackdown in 2017, when PDP-BJP alliance was ruling J&K, the NIA arrested seven separatist leaders in Jammu and Kashmir to investigate "illegal funding from across the border”.
Ms. Mufti said complaints had been put forth in the State that those accused by the NIA, ranging from family members of some separatist leaders, businessmen and media owners having remote connections with the accusations levelled against them, were feeling harassed after the raids by the Agency sleuths.
“In view of these misgivings it's incumbent upon the organisation to come clean on its investigations in the State so that the misgivings which its conduct has given rise to are cleared forthwith. This would go a long way in instilling public faith in the institutions of the country and the State,’’ she said.
