India has called the U.N. Special Rapporteurs’ raising of the issues in Kashmir post-August 2019 “deplorable”, adding that it was “deliberately timed to coincide with the visit of a group of Ambassadors to Jammu and Kashmir”.

Anurag Srivastava, the spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, said in a statement that “it is deplorable that the SRs after sharing their questionnaire on February 10 did not even wait for our response. Instead, they chose to release their inaccurate assumptions to the media.”