Mubashir Bukhari
Srinagar (NVI): Jammu and Kashmir administration today booked senior Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader and former minister Naeem Akhtar under stringent Public Safety Act (PSA).
Akhtar is now sixth Kashmiri leader to be booked under the PSA. He will be lodged in M-5 hut located on Srinagar’s Gupkar Road.
In PDP-BJP government, Akhter served as Minister for Education and Minister for Public works.
On late Thursday evening, two former chief ministers-Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah were booked under stringent Public Safety Act (PSA).
Besides Omar and Mehbooba, Public Safety Act (PSA) was also slapped against National Conference (NC) General Secretary Ali Muhammad Sagar and senior PDP leader Sartaj Madani- who is the uncle of Mehbooba Mufti.
In another development, senior National Conference (NC) leader and former Speaker of JK Legislative Assembly Mubarak Gul and NC leader Tanvir Sadiq were shifted from MLA hostel to their respective residences and kept under house detention.
