SC allows Sitaram Yechury to visit J&K

28 Aug 2019 Evaluate

The Supreme Court of India (SC) has allowed CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury to visit Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) to meet his party colleague and former MLA Mohammed Yusuf Tarigami, who was detained in Jammu and Kashmir after the Centre abrogated provisions of Article 370.

A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, however, directed Yechury to only meet Tarigami and not use the visit for any political purpose. The bench said if Yechury indulges in any political activities, authorities are free to report them to the apex court. Sitaram Yechury has also been asked to submit a report to the Supreme Court after his return.

Tarigami, a member of the Central Committee of the CPI(M) and four-time MLA of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, has not been keeping well. The CPI(M) had filed the writ petition under Article 32 of the Constitution, a person has the right to move to Supreme Court (and high courts also) for getting his fundamental rights protected. Yechury had travelled to Srinagar earlier this month to visit Tarigami but was then denied entry.

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