On the crackdown on militancy in Jammu and Kashmir, Yadav said the forces were trying to identify splinter terror groups "so that their supporters could be neutralised".
The government is learnt to have ordered their immediate shifting to Agra for which purpose a special aircraft was flown to Srinagar.
The apex court’s response came while hearing her daughter's petition challenging the former Chief Minister's detention under the stringent Public Safety Act.
Mufti was detained at the time of abrogation of Article 370 on August 5, 2019.
The statement came a day after National Conference vice-president Omar Abdullah was released after charges of Public Safety Act (PSA) against him were revoked.
The bench has now posted the plea for hearing on March 18.
Earlier this month, Former Chief Ministers of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti were slapped with the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA)
Top leaders of the party are under the draconian Public Safety Act including former chief ministers Omar Abdullah and Farooq Abdullah.
Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti who were under preventive detention for the past six month, were on Thursday night booked under the Public Safety Act (PSA) without charges, barely hours before their arrest was to come to an end.
While speaking on the Motion of Thanks on the President's address in the Parliament, yesterday Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, "She (Mehbooba Mufti) said we made the wrong decision in 1947... Do the people here support these statements? Omar Abdullah said abrogation of Article 370 will bring such an earthquake that Kashmir will separate from the country. Farooq Abdullah said the abrogation will open the way for Kashmir's independence... Can anyone agree with such language?" The move comes hours after the PM's remarks.
