Srinagar: The sister of former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday challenged slapping of PSA on him in Apex Court.
Reports said Sara Abdullah Pilot argued her brother’s detention is a grave violation of his constitutional rights including that of freedom of speech, and is part of a “consistent and concerted effort to muzzle all political rivals”.
Omar Abdullah, detained without charges since August 5 — when the government ended special status to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 — was formally detained under the PSA last week.
The plea challenging Omar Abdullah’s detention says there could be no material available to detain a person who has already been detained for the previous six months; that grounds for the detention are wholly lacking any material facts
A reference to all the public statements and messages posted by Omar Abdullah during the period up to his first detention would reveal that he kept calling for peace and co-operation messages which in Gandhi’s India cannot remotely affect public order,” the plea added.
Former Jammu and Kashmir chief ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti were booked on February 6 under the Public Safety Act (PSA), barely hours before their six-month-long “preventive detention” were to come to an end. (KNS)
