Abid Bashir
Srinagar (NVI): Jammu & Kashmir government today revoked the detention orders of 28 people lodged in prisons under the Public Safety Act (PSA) post the Abrogation of Article 370.
Highly placed sources told NVI that Home Department has revoked PSA detentions of 21 persons lodged in different jails outside the Union territory and 7 others lodged in Central Jail, Srinagar. The decision in this regard was taken in a meeting yesterday evening.
The prominent figure in the list includes Muhammad Yasin Khan, who heads Kashmir Economic Alliance and Kashmir Traders and Manufactures Federation (KTMF).
Khan was detained by the J&K administration following the abrogation of Article 370 and its bifurcation into two UTs.
Apart from others, the detention orders of two close associates of Sajad Gani Lone, Chairman of the Peoples Conference, have also been revoked.
Ahead of abrogation of Article 370, police also rounded up activists from different parts of Kashmir. However, after the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus, J&K government has revoked detention orders of a total of 170 persons lodged in J&K, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana jails.
As per the mechanism worked out by the government, the revocation orders of all detainees have been sent to Home Departments and director generals of police of Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi for issuing directions to police to enable their transit in respective jurisdictions.
The concerned Deputy Commissioners in Kashmir have been directed to issue necessary passes to family members of detainees along with vehicle passes for to and fro movement in Uttar Pradesh.
After the abrogation of Article 370 by BJP-led government, the government detained 5,000 persons in Jammu & Kashmir including three former Chief Ministers and top mainstream leaders. Of them, more than 300 were shifted outside J&K and lodged in Uttar Pradesh and Haryana jails.
