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Home / News / Politics News / Former J&K Chief Ministers, Mehbooba and Omar, booked under PSA
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    Former J&K Chief Ministers, Mehbooba and Omar, booked under PSA

    Shalini Ojha
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    Last updated on Feb 07, 2020, 07:12 pm
    Former J&K Chief Ministers, Mehbooba and Omar, booked under PSA
  • The government has booked National Conference's Omar Abdullah and Peoples Democratic Party Chief Mehbooba Mufti under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA), reports said.

    This Act allows the Centre to detain both former Chief Ministers without a trial, for up to three months.

    Omar's father, Farooq Abdullah, one of the senior-most politicians of J&K, was booked under the same Act last September.

  • In this article
    They were arrested before Article 370 was abrogated Ex-bureaucrat Shah Faesal could be slapped with PSA too Government couldn't detain them for long, hence, used PSA Statements they gave years ago were used to prolong detention The government disregards the Constitution, said Mehbooba's daughter Hours before PSA was used, PM slammed controversial statements Omar never made such comments, said NC spokesperson
  • Background

    They were arrested before Article 370 was abrogated

    They were arrested before Article 370 was abrogated
  • Omar and Mehbooba have been under arrest since August 5, the day BJP decided to annul provisions of Section 370 that granted special status to J&K.

    Dozens of other politicians, both separatist and mainstream ones, were arrested to keep violence under check.

    Apart from this, the Valley was also put under a heavy blanket of security and communication modes were snapped, adversely affecting normalcy.

  • Detention

    Ex-bureaucrat Shah Faesal could be slapped with PSA too

    Ex-bureaucrat Shah Faesal could be slapped with PSA too
  • Besides political opponents Omar and Mehbooba, Ali Mohammad Sagar, general secretary of NC, and Sartaj Madni of the PDP were also booked under PDP. The same Act is likely to be evoked on IAS officer-turned-politician Shah Faesal.

    "We have not received a warrant against Mufti and Omar since they are under SSG (Special Security Group) cover," a senior officer told Indian Express.

  • Reason

    Government couldn't detain them for long, hence, used PSA

  • Reportedly, the government took the PSA route as it became "legally untenable" for it to keep Omar and Mehbooba under arrest for long.

    A PTI report said a magistrate and a cop reached Hari Niwas, where Omar has been kept since August, to inform him about the new development.

    It was Omar's grandfather Sheikh Abdullah who enacted PSA to keep timber smuggling at check.

  • Statement

    Statements they gave years ago were used to prolong detention

  • Omar was told that some statements that he made in the past were "subversive" in nature, hence, PSA has been evoked.

    The same treatment was given to his political rival, Mehbooba Mufti. At the government accommodation that has been turned into a subsidiary jail for her, Mehbooba was handed over a dossier which said her 2010 statements forced the government to take this step.

  • Do you know?

    The government disregards the Constitution, said Mehbooba's daughter

  • Upset and furious, Mehbooba's daughter Iltija said their lives resemble "Orwellian Dystopia". "(This is) a government that shows utter disregard for our Constitution and is willing to sacrifice values of equality, fraternity, and social justice for the altar of power," she said.

  • Looking back

    Hours before PSA was used, PM slammed controversial statements

    Hours before PSA was used, PM slammed controversial statements
  • Just yesterday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned "unacceptable" statements of J&K CMs.

    "Mehbooba said 'India has cheated Kashmir. It seems we picked wrong side in 1947'. Omar had said 'Removing Article 370 would bring an earthquake that will separate Kashmir from India'. Farooq Abdullah said 'if Article 370 is removed, there will be no one in Valley to unfurl the flag'," PM Modi claimed.

  • Quote

    Omar never made such comments, said NC spokesperson

  • Meanwhile, reacting to claims that PM Modi made in Lok Sabha, Imran Dar, the spokesperson of NC, said Omar didn't make any such comment. "Every statement of Omar Abdullah is in the public domain and he has not made any such statement," he added.

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