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Defiant Mehbooba justifies Alam’s release 3/14/2015 11:56:36 PM Early Times Report Jammu/New Delhi, Mar 14: Even after calling temporary truce with the alliance partner BJP, Chief of Peoples Democratic Party Mehbooba Mufti today stuck to her party stand claiming Mufti Mohammad Sayeed led alliance government had not committed any wrong by releasing hardline separatist leader Masarat Alam. PDP Chief also maintained Alam never used a gun and was a product of the 2010 stone-pelting unrest which he had spearheaded.In her freewheeling interaction with a senior journalist at a two day long conclave, organised by a private TV Channel, Mehbooba Mufti in response to a question whether she regretted the decision to release Masarat Alam said, the state government was only upholding a Supreme Court order by freeing the separatist"."If upholding the direction of the Supreme Court is wrong, then what do we do? You are trying to subvert your own Supreme Court when it comes to Kashmir. How can you do that?," she wondered, referring to a court direction that Alam could be further detained only if there are fresh grounds for doing so. The PDP leader, who asserted that PDP-BJP alliance was driven by the mandate, said there should not be "double standards" over court judgements. Referring to the case of Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru she said,"You pick up number 28 on the list and hang Afzal Guru and say it's SC judgement but when the same SC says release Alam who is being held without charge you question it," she said. "I wish when Masrat Alam was released that people should have been debating how the Supreme Court has evolved to the extent that it has given a judgement entirely contrary to what is the security mindset in the country. "Masrat Alam would not acknowledge it but I am sure he in his heart of hearts or people around him would be talking 'Oh God, this is the Indian Supreme Court," she said.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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