Jammu, October 20, 2022 (PPI-OT):Chief of Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) Simranjit Singh Mann has moved a court to challenge the authorities’ order denying him entry into the Kashmir Valley, his lawyer said on Thursday. Simranjit Singh Mann has been protesting in Lakhanpur for four consecutive nights against the decision.
The MP from Sangrur in Punjab was stopped on orders of Kathua district magistrate Rahul Pandey on Monday evening, leading to the protest by the politician and his supporters. Mann filed a petition in the court of the chief judicial magistrate of Kathua through advocate T N Gupta, challenging the district magistrate’s order denying him entry into Kashmir.
Gupta said Mann has challenged the order on grounds that he was granted approval for his visit to the territory a few days ago. As per the protocol of his visit fixed by the additional deputy commissioner (Kathua), he left for IIOJK on October 17 (from Punjab). But when he reached here, the district magistrate of Kathua gave him this order (of denying entry into J and K). So he is challenging it,” Gupta said.
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