Public Safety Act  

SimplifiedBy on MyNation examines the Public Safety Act, which Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti have been slapped with in Jammu and Kashmir

 Sources in the Union home ministry told MyNation that slapping the Public Safety Act was absolutely necessary and the two leaders - Omar Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti - have shown no signs of helping in the restoration of peace in the Valley

 

Former IAS officer Shah Faesal detained by authorities at the Delhi airport and sent back to Kashmir. He was again detained under the Public Safety Act (PSA) on his arrival in Srinagar.

Shahid Manzoor, the friend of Jamaat-e-Islami preacher Rizwan Asad Pandit, has reportedly joined terrorist organisation Hizbul Mujahideen. This comes as a big jolt especially after the security forces claimed recently that recruitment by terrorist organisations had gone down in Kashmir. 

 Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Yasin Malik was named as the main accused in the kidnapping of former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohd Sayeed’s daughter Dr Rubiya Sayeed,  killing of five Air Force personnel in Srinagar in 1990, killing Justice Neelkanth Ganju and former director, Doordarshan Kendra in Srinagar, Lassa Kaul