Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti. | Photo Credit: PTI Former chief minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday wrote a letter to Chief Justice of India Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud and sought his intervention to restore “the fundamental rights of every resident of Jammu and Kashmir that have been suspended arbitrarily since 2019”. “As far as J&K is concerned, the grip of the Government of India’s iron fisted policy is being justified in the name of national security and interest. Since 2019, the fundamental rights of every resident of J&K have been suspended arbitrarily and the constitutional guarantees given at the time of J&K’s accession were suddenly and unconstitutionally abrogated. All this is happening at a time when the trust deficit and growing alienation has only widened since 2019,” Ms. Mufti wrote in the letter. The former chief minister flagged the issue of denial and impounding of passports in J&K. “My aged mother’s passport has been arbitrarily withheld by the Government. It has been over two years since we filed a petition in the J&K High Court. …