PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti was detained by police during a protest in Delhi against the J&K administration’s anti-encroachment drive in the Union Terrritory.

Political parties in Jammu and Kashmir hit out at the Lieutenant Governor’s administration over the anti-encroachment drive, with Ms. Mufti accusing the BJP Government of turning the Union Territory into Afghanistan by “demolishing the homes of poor and marginalised”.