Mehbooba terms NIA as ‘Government of India’s pet’

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, Jan 16

The NIA notices sent to people from Punjab amid ongoing farmers' protest against Centre’s three farm laws reverberated in the political circles of Jammu & Kashmir, as PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti reacted sharply over the development by calling the anti-terror probe agency a “Government of India’s pet”.

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Taking note of the media reports about the notices, Mufti in one of her Twitter posts said, “GOIs pet agency NIA is now being unleashed on farmer unions. The rot that has set into India’s premier terror investigative agency can be gauged from the manner in which they are fabricating charges on Kashmiris, farmers & those who dare to dissent.”

Earlier too when her party’s youth-wing leader Waheed Para was re-arrested by J&K Police after getting bail in an NIA case, the PDP chief had said, this was an act of “political vendetta” for raising voice against “Delhi’s onslaught”.