The Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti has no moral right to claim that the National Investigation Agency is “harassing” the Hurriyat leaders and others, the National Conference vice-president Omar Abdullah said on Monday.
Omar said the Hurriyat leaders like Mirwaiz Umar Farooq arefacing the NIA summons in a case filed during the tenure of Mehbooba Mufti asthe chief minister in 2017.
“Unlike Mehbooba, we used the NIA to provide justice to aLolab (Kupwara) resident, Liyaqat, who, after his return from Pakistan viaNepal, was arrested by the police at Delhi and sent to Tihar jail. I approachedthe then home minister and sought the NIA investigation in the case, whichlater found his return in accordance with the rehabilitation scheme for formermilitants, and set him free after a month,” Omar said, addressing a mammothgathering at Kunzar, Tangmarg on Monday.