The Supreme Court has allowed Mehbooba Mufti's daughter Iltija to travel to Srinagar to meet the former Jammu and Kashmir leader who is under detention for over a month.

During the hearing in Supreme Court on Thursday, Attorney General told the court that other members of Mufti's family have already visited the PDP chief twice and Iltija could also have gone to the District Magistrate and seek permission to meet her mother.

AG KK Venugopal also told the Supreme Court that Mehbooba Mufti's mother and sister have visited her twice. To this, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta added that these petitions have some other purpose.

Counsel Nitya Ramakrishnan, who was representing Iltija, said, "I was also restricted from leaving my house till August 22. That is why I had to leave the state."

When the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi asked what stopped her [Iltija] from moving from Chennai to Srinagar, Nitya Ramakrishnan said it was the "intimidation" she was subjected to from August 5 to 22.

Quoting Iltija, Nitya said, "I was not permitted to move out of my house or meet my mother."

CJI Ranjan Gogoi asked: "So there is no difficulty in you reaching Srinagar? The difficulty is in coming out of the house and meeting your mother?"

To this, Nitya Ramakrishnan said that Iltija was permitted to travel to Chennai. "While I was in Srinagar, they [the J&K authorities] did not let me come out of the house and meet my mother," the counsel quoted Iltija as saying.

The CJI then asked the solicitor general what's the objection "to her travelling to Srinagar and going to her house", Tushar Mehta said that the objection is "raising the issue before the Supreme Court". He also alleged that the petition is being misused by Sana Iltija.

"So, we will permit that she's free to meet her mother and move around Srinagar," the CJI said.