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    Public Safety Act News

    Mehbooba urges authorities to allow Muharram processions in Kashmir

    Peoples Democratic Party leader Mehbooba Mufti. (File)
    Cities
    Published 67 days ago

    J&K AAP MLA Mehraj Malik walks free after HC quashes PSA detention

    Aam Aadmi Party legislator Mehraj Malik waving to supporters in Jammu after his release from the Kathua jail on Tuesday. (PTI Photo)
    Cities
    Updated 116 days ago

    High court quashes PSA against J&K AAP MLA Mehraj Malik

    Aam Aadmi Party MLA Mehraj Malik was arrested under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA) for allegedly disturbing public order in Doda district on September 8, 2025. (HT file photo)
    Cities
    Updated 117 days ago

    Sopore protest: Week on, 6 booked under PSA

    Protests erupted in Sopore town last week after a girl student alleged sexual harassment by a lecturer posted at Girls Higher Secondary School. Soon after the incident, the lecturer was attached to Higher Secondary School, Gurez, and the government ordered an enquiry. (PTI File)
    Cities
    Published 120 days ago

    HC reserves order on AAP MLA Mehraj Malik’s PSA detention

    Malik was detained on September 8 last year by the Doda district magistrate under Section 8 of the J&K Public Safety Act, 1978, for allegedly disturbing public order. (File)
    Cities
    Published 180 days ago

    HC defers hearing in MLA Mehraj Malik’s case to Jan 29

    The Jammu and Kashmir high court on Saturday heard the state government on detention of AAP MLA from Doda East Mehraj Malik and deferred the case to January 29 next year. (Getty Images/iStockphoto/ Representational image)
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    Published 238 days ago

    AAP MLA Malik’s legal team wraps up arguments, HC lists matter for Dec 27

    Following the closure of arguments by the legal team of jailed AAP MLA Mehraj Malik, the Jammu and Kashmir high court on Thursday listed the case for December 27 when the state has to present its contentions. (Getty Images/iStockphoto/ Representational image)
    Cities
    Published 247 days ago

    CPI(M) leader objects to handcuffing of AAP MLA Mehraj Malik, seeks apology

    CPI(M) MLA Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami has termed the Public Safety Act a draconian law and demanded an apology for parading AAP legislator Mehraj Malik in handcuffs at a hospital in Kathua on Thursday. (HT file photo)
    Cities
    Published 253 days ago

    HC to hear AAP MLA Mehraj Malik’s plea seeking release on Dec 18

    Three months on AAP MLA from Doda East, Mehraj Malik, who remains jailed in Kathua jail, has conveyed that he has “immense faith in the judiciary but not in the government”. (Shutterstock/ Representational image)
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    Published 255 days ago

    Uproar again in J&K assembly over detention of AAP MLA under PSA

    National Conference MLA from Banihal, Sajjad Shaheen, on Monday, raised the issue of PSA on Mehraj Malik in the zero hour which was objected to by the Bharatiya Janata Party. (Waseem Andrabi/HT)
    Cities
    Published 299 days ago

    J&K: HC quashes detention of aide of AAP MLA Mehraj Malik under PSA

    Advocate Rahul Raina, who appeared for the detenue, submitted that the allegations mentioned regarding the detention were vague, absurd, baseless and without any substance.
    Cities
    Published 303 days ago

    Autumn assembly session begins in J&K, MLAs protest Mehraj Malik’s arrest

    The autumn session of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly began in Srinagar on Thursday morning with Speaker Abdul Rahim Rather reading out the obituary references. Chief minister Omar Abdullah is seated on the extreme left. (HT Photo)
    Cities
    Published 304 days ago

    Owaisi, Sajad Lone slam J&K CM on PSA repeal claim

    Under PSA, a person can be put in jail without trial from six months to two years on the orders of a district magistrate after recommendation by police. (File)
    Cities
    Published 307 days ago

    Postal ballot arranged for jailed AAP MLA for Rajya Sabha polls, J&K govt informs HC

    AAP MLA Mehraj Malik has been lodged in Kathua district jail since September 8 under the stringent Public Safety Act for allegedly disturbing public order in Doda district.
    Cities
    Published 308 days ago

    Criminal detained under PSA in Jammu

    A hardcore criminal was detained under stringent Public Safety Act (PSA) in Jammu on Sunday, police said. (Representational image)
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    Published 314 days ago

    Senior HC lawyer recuses himself from representing AAP MLA Malik

    Advocate Kotwal, in a written statement issued to the media, mentioned certain videos where the politician purportedly claimed that J&K is not a part of India while praising terrorists Burhan Wani and Masood Azhar. (File)
    Cities
    Published 338 days ago

    Broadband services restored after week-long suspension in Doda

    The reopening of shops in the market, resumption of transport services, restoration of broadband and mobile internet services and the reopening of schools will be carried out in a phased manner after assessing the ground situation, officers said. (HT File)
    Cities
    Published 342 days ago

    AAP forms legal team to challenge arrest of its lone MLA Mehraj Malik in J&K

    AAP MLA Mehraj Malik being taken into custody in Doda last Monday. (HT File)
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    Published 342 days ago

    Mufti, Abdullah demand release of Doda MLA Mehraj Malik

    Former J&K chief ministers Mehbooba Mufti and Farooq Abdullah have demanded release of Doda legislator Mehraj Malik. The PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday termed the arrest of MLA Mehraj Malik under Public Safety Act (PSA) an attack on democracy (HT File)
    Cities
    Published 343 days ago

    Doda starts limping back to normalcy

    Security personnel check a commuter's two-wheeler after security was beefed up in view of the protests against the detention of AAP MLA Mehraj Malik under the Public Safety Act, in Doda district, Jammu and Kashmir, Saturday. (PTI)
    Cities
    Published 343 days ago

    PSA remark on Doda MLA: J&K speaker issues show-cause notice to PDP MLA Para

    The J&K legislative speaker, Abdul Rahim Rather, has issued a show-cause notice to the PDP legislative party leader and legislator, Pulwama, Waheed ur Rehman Para for his post on Twitter (now X) in which the legislator had mentioned that the PSA was slapped on Doda assembly member Mehraj Malik after the endorsement of the speaker. (HT File)
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    Published 344 days ago

    Srinagar: Sanjay Singh alleges ‘house arrest’ as cops foil protest plan

    AAP MP Sanjay Singh in a conversation with JKNC president Farooq Abdullah after he was allegedly placed under house arrest, in Srinagar, on Thursday. (PTI)
    Cities
    Published 345 days ago

    18 FIRs, 16 DDRs: Doda MLA Malik a history-sheeter, reveals dossier

    Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA from Doda East, Mehraj Malik, 37, was detained under the stringent Public Safety Act on Monday and lodged in the Kathua jail. (HT Photo)
    Cities
    Published 345 days ago

    'Gardan daba dunga': Man storms into wife's FB live over J&K MLA's detention

    The video is now in wide circulation on social media.
    India News
    Updated 345 days ago

    NC chief Farooq meets Sanjay Singh across guesthouse gate in Srinagar

    AAP MP Sanjay Singh speaking to National Conference president Farooq Abdullah from across the gate of the guest house in Srinagar on Thursday. (X)
    Cities
    Published 345 days ago

    Suspected blast in J&K’s Doda triggers panic, two detained

    Security personnel deployed to maintain law and order in view of the protests against the detention of AAP MLA Mehraj Malik under the Public Safety Act, in Doda on Wednesday. (PTI Photo)
    Cities
    Published 345 days ago

    BJP trying to destroy AAP: MP Sanjay Singh on MLA Malik’s detention

    AAP leader Sanjay Singh during the party's protest, in Jammu, on Wednesday. (PTI)
    Cities
    Published 346 days ago

    Protests in Doda, other places in J&K against detention of AAP MLA Malik

    Aam Aadmi Party workers protest demanding release of detained MLA Mehraj Malik in Jammu on Tuesday. (ANI)
    Cities
    Published 347 days ago

    J&K assembly secretariat denies endorsing PSA against AAP MLA Mehraj Malik

    Aam Aadmi Party MLA Mehraj Malik was arrested under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA) for allegedly disturbing public order in Doda district on Monday. (HT file photo)
    Cities
    Published 347 days ago

    Parties condemn detention of AAP MLA under PSA in J&K

    J&K chief Minister Omar Abdullah said that there is “no justification” for detaining an elected representative. (PTI File)
    Cities
    Published 348 days ago
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