Srinagar: National Conference while reacting over the standoff between West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee and the Government of India, have said that the ‘Didi of Bengal blocks the CBI and Kashmiri Didi gave her police force to guide the NIA.
Kashmiri Didi was in reference to PDP Chief and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti.
Didi of Bengal blocks CBI and takes centre head on. Kashmiri Didi (baaji) gave her police force to guide and assist NIA .
— JKNC (@JKNC_) February 4, 2019
A team of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials on Sunday who had arrived at Kolkata Police Commissioner’s residence, Rajeev Kumar to investigate him regarding the chit fund case, were denied permission and were briefly detained by the police.Following the news, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, alleging a coup against her government, started an indefinite dharna. During her address toward the reporters, she criticized Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah, stating that there was a constitutional breakdown occurring under Modi’s rule.
The NIA, after a sting operation “Operation: Villains of the Valley-The Hurriyat Tapes” by the India Today on May 16, 2017, started investigating upon and questioning the accused leaders and some prime suspects. The questioning of the suspects continues, ‘despite their deteriorating health and lack of evidence against them’.
Eight Kashmiris were arrested, booked under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 1967 and alleged money laundering offences by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Enforcement Directorate (ED). They were sent to Tihar. There are eight jails in Tihar and each jail has two wards: General and High Risk. The most dangerous/ notorious criminals get placed in the High-risk ward. It’s where the Kashmiri inmates have been imprisoned. Among the other criminals there, Kashmiris never felt safe and had written a letter to DG Prisons on April 30th 2018 requesting him to keep them separate from other inmates.
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