In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah has criticised Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha’s blatant lie about Mirwaiz Umar Farooq’s house arrest, saying that Lieutenant Governor says one thing and the police say something entirely different.
Omar’s remarks came after journalists were not allowed to meet the Mirwaiz at his Nigeen residence in Srinagar, a day after Sinha had said the Hurriyat leader was not under house arrest.
“The LG says one thing & the police do something entirely different,” Omar wrote on Twitter, reacting to the reports of journalists prevented from meeting or interviewing the Mirwaiz. Sinha, while speaking to the BBC, had said the Mirwaiz was not under house arrest and was a free man.
“I will correct it,” he had said when asked about the reasons for the house arrest of the Mirwaiz.
“Even in August 2019, he was not booked under the PSA (Public Safety Act). If you go back, there were some incidents…. We have deployed police personnel around him for his protection,” Sinha said in the interview.
