The Jammu and Kashmir Police has registered a First Information Report (FIR) against Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti for allegedly violating the Model Code of Conduct, officials said on Wednesday.
The FIR has been registered against Mehbooba for violating Section 144 of the CrPC after she and her party workers held a sit-in protest in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on May 25, while polling was underway in the Anantnag-Rajouri Parliamentary seat in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections.
She was protesting against the alleged detention of her party workers and polling agents.
Reacting to the registration of the FIR, Mehbooba said this was the price that her party was paying for “speaking truth to power”.
“Amusing to find an FIR filed against me for apparently flouting MCC. This is the price PDP has paid for speaking truth to power. Our protest was against GOI in cahoots with local administration for detaining hundreds of PDP polling agents & workers in the hours leading upto voting. Still not satisfied the same administration went onto launch Cordon & Search Operations in traditional PDP stronghold areas to terrorise our voters and prevent them from exercising their right to vote. Ulta chor kotwal ko daante {sic},” she said in a post on microblogging site X.
The authorities in Anantnag had imposed section 144 of the CrPc from 6 pm on May 23 till 6 pm on May 25 for smooth conduct of the election process.