section_path: Investigations and arrests/Indian investigations/Treatment of potential witnesses
section_name: Treatment of potential witnesses
paragraph_text: Treatment of potential witnesses
  
  According to former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti, locals were "rounded up by security agencies and kept in custody for hours and sometimes the entire day without food" in what she saw as a form of collective punishment. Mufti stated that the locals "unanimously came out against this gruesome attack and unequivocally condemned it" and that "the blanket criminalization of locals not only alienates our people but also sows seeds of resentment and mistrust".