Mubashir Bukhari
Srinagar (NVI): Jammu and Kashmir administration today booked a close aide of PDP President Mehbooba Mufti, Peer Mansoor, under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA).
Peer Manzoor, a former legislator who hails from south Kashmir is the fourth senior party leader to be booked under the PSA in the last couple of weeks. He served as Mehboob’s political advisor also.
Earlier, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti, Sartaj Madani and Naeem Akhter from the party were booked under this act.
Peer Mansoor continues to remain lodged at the MLA hostel along with bureaucrat turned politician Shah Faesal and Hilal Lone, son of Baramulla MP Akbar Lone.
The MLA hostel has been converted into a sub-jail, where as many as 34 political leaders of various mainstream parties have been kept since November 17 last year.
Earlier this month, Shah Faesal and Hilal Lone were booked under the public safety act (PSA). Senior NC leader Ali Mohammad Sagar (NC) was also slapped with the PSA.
Two former chief ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, who are under detention at two separate places, were also booked under the PSA on February 6. NC president Farooq Abdullah is detained at his Gupkar house.
The administration had released five mainstream leaders including three former legislators from detention on January 16 and five others on December 30, 2019.
