Kashmir: Former IAS officer Shah Faesal booked under Public Safety Act

Former IAS
officer Shah Faesal, who has been in detention since August last year, has been
booked under the controversial Public Safety Act (PSA).

Earlier, three
former chief ministers, Farooq Abdullah, Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti and
other top-rung political leaders were booked under PSA after the completed six
months in detention.

Faesal had
quit the administrative services last year in January and floated his own
political party Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Movement.

In August
last year, Faesal was stopped from taking a flight to Istanbul at the Delhi
airport and was flown back to Srinagar where he was detained.

The controversial
Public Safety Act allows detention for up to two years without a trial for
people above the age of 18.

Faesal had
criticised the “unprecedented” lock-down in the Valley with its eight
million population “incarcerated” like never before post the removal
of special status to Jammu and Kashmir, provided under Article 370.