Shia leader Aga Hassan stopped from boarding Delhi-Tehran flight for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei funeral, his son claims

“He told them that he was going only to attend the funeral and that he was not going to deliver a speech. However, he refused to agree to their condition,” Muntazir claimed.

Muntazir further claimed that immigration officials then seized Hassan’s passport and sent a seizure memo to the Regional Passport Officer (RPO) in Srinagar.

The seizure memo, issued by Ajay Singh of the Bureau of Immigration at Indira Gandhi International Airport, said, “The passport/Travel document… issued at Srinagar in the name of Aga Syed Hassan Mosvi is seized and sent to RPO Srinagar for necessary action…”

Hassan was one of five leaders from Jammu and Kashmir invited to Tehran to attend the funeral of the Ayatollah Khamenei. The others were prominent Shia leader and MP Aga Ruhullah Mehdi, Shia leaders Imran Ansari and Syed Hadi, and former chief minister and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti. Mufti was the only non-Shia leader from J&K invited for the funeral.

Mufti and Ansari were allowed to board the special plane sent by the Iranian government to take invited guests from India to Tehran. Syed Hadi has not yet made the journey.

Hassan’s son, Muntazir, is a PDP legislator and represents the Budgam Assembly constituency that he won during the bypolls. Hassan has been an executive member of the moderate Hurriyat Conference led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.