Srinagar, February 15, 2023 (PPI-OT):Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti’s daughter Iltija has moved the High Court of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir for issuance of passport to pursue her higher education abroad. Iltija said her passport expired on January 2, and she had applied for a fresh one in advance on June 8 last year.” The passport, as per the instruction manual, is expected to be dispatched within approximately 30 days, the inaction is discriminatory in nature and unconstitutional,” read the petition filed by her in the high court through her lawyer. In the petition, she said that the passport is required immediately by her as she intends to apply for obtaining a master’s degree in sustainable development from outside India.

“In this view of the matter, the delay occasioned in issuing the passport in favour of the petitioner and thereto in restraining the petitioner from travelling abroad is not only illegal but violates with impunity the mandate of Article 21 of the Constitution of India,” she said in her petition. The petition has mentioned the Indian Ministry of External Affairs and Additional Director General of Police, IIOJK, and the Passport Officer, Srinagar, as respondents. In March 2021, Mehbooba and 80-year-old mother Gulshan Nazir were refused passports after Police cited” adverse report”.

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