Jammu, August 26, 2023 (PPI-OT): A 25-year-old man was detained under draconian Public Safety Act (PSA) and lodged at a jail in Reasi district of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday. A police spokesman said the man, identified as Mukhtiyar Ahmad, a resident of Chassana, Reasi, is named in nearly a dozen cases registered at various police stations in Reasi, Udhampur and Himachal Pradesh between 2017 and 2023.
He said the step was taken on the directives of Senior Superintendent of Police, Reasi, Amit Gupta and the detention order was sent to District Magistrate Babila Rakwal. The PSA is an administrative law that allows detention without charge or trial, for up to two years in some cases.
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