Former J&K CMs Mehbooba Mufti, Omar Abdullah And Other Leaders Charged Under Public Safety Act scroll.in

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief ministers Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah, who have been in preventive detention since August when the erstwhile state’s special status was scrapped, were charged under the Public Safety Act on Thursday. These leaders are in detention for six months now since the Centre amended Article 370 of the Constitution on August 5 to abrogate the special status, and bifurcated it into the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.

Abdullah and Mufti, along with a few other Kashmiri politicians including Shah Faesal, were charged under the Act on Thursday as their detention under Section 107 (security for keeping the peace in other cases) of the Indian Penal Code were coming to an end. National Conference General Secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar and Peoples Democratic Party leader Sartaj Madani were also detained under the PSA.