J&K Cops Respond After Mehbooba Mufti's Daughter Tweets About Manhandling

Police have strongly denied reports that three Jammu and Kashmir political leaders were manhandled on Sunday while being shifted to a detention center in Srinagar. The three leaders – Sajjad Lone, Shah Faisal, and Waheed Para – were among 34 being detained at the city’s Centaur Hotel and were being moved to the MLA Hostel because the facility lacked proper heating to deal with the Kashmiri winter.

The police response came after allegations of manhandling were leveled by Iltija Mufti, the daughter of PDP leader and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, via her mother’s Twitter account. Authorities said the detained leaders had only been subject to routine frisking and luggage checks before they were shifted.

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