Srinagar, Jan. 17 -- Iltija Mufti

Riyaz Wani

On the morning of August 5, 2019, 'Fair View', the Mufti residence on Srinagar's Gupkar Road wore an uneasy calm. Mehbooba Mufti, leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, had been detained by the police hours before Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced in Parliament the scrapping of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution.

It was a twin calamity for Mehbooba's 32-year-old daughter Iltija. On the one hand was the trauma of her mother's detention, and on the other, the implications of the revocation of the special status that J&K had been granted by the Indian constitution.

Five months on, Iltija's troubles are far from over. Her mother is...