Srinagar, Sep 24 (UNI) Demanding release of former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti and others, senior Congress leader Prof Saifuddin Soz on Thursday said there was no justification in jailing dozens of mainstream leaders for no fault of theirs.

It would be well advised to release Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba who has been incarcerated illegally, said the former union minister Soz in a statement Thursday afternoon. 

Soz, who claimed to have been released only recently after remaining under house detention since March 5,2019 when centre abrogated special status of erstwhile state, said Union Territory (UT) administration cannot convince anybody in the system that there was any justification for jailing dozens of mainstream leaders for no fault of theirs.
“ It is a shame on the Administration that Mehbooba Mufti happens to be in jail, unconstitutionally”, he said.
Mr Soz said the Administration should think that the incarceration against the Kashmir mainstream leadership has earned it nothing except infamy and rebuke.