PSA on Mehbooba Mufti, Omar Abdullah, Shah faisal, may be in detention for 2 years
Former J&K CMs Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti's detention will continue for some more time. According to top-level sources, the duo has been slapped with the draconian Public Saftey Act (PSA). Both were under preventive detention in Srinagar for the last six months
Srinagar:
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, under house arrest for the last six months, have been charged under the Public Safety Act – a stringent law that allows detention without trial for up to two years, sources told NDTV on Thursday.
Requesting not to be named, a senior police officer told NDTV that a District Magistrate has signed detention warrants against Mr Abdullah and Ms Mufti. Under the charges brought against the two leaders, they can be jailed for three months without trial.
Requesting not to be named, a senior police officer told NDTV that a District Magistrate has signed detention warrants against Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti.
Omar Abdullah’s father, Farooq Abdullah was charged under the same law last September and has been under house arrest since August as well. The 83-year-old politician was charged with “disturbing public order” under the law, which means shorter detention of three months.
PSA was also slapped on National Conference general secretary Ali Muhammad Sagar, former NC MLC Bashir Veeri and PDP leader Sartaj Madni (maternal uncle of Mehbooba Mufti) soon after their release from MLA Hostel Srinagar earlier in the day.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday spoke in Parliament describing the situation in Kashmir valley after the Abrogation of Article 370. PM Modi told Lok Sabha that Mehbooba Mufti, Omar Abdullah and Farooq Abdullah had given inflammatory speeches before the abrogation of Article 370 on August 5. All three Kashmiri leaders now face PSA charges.
“We won’t give permission to disturb the peace of any place in this country be it Kashmir or Northeast,” the PM said.
Meanwhile, four leaders were released on Wednesday, including People’s Conference leader Sajjad Lone — once a close BJP aide — and Wahid Para, a member of Mehbooba Mufti’s Peoples Democratic Party
