J&K: Six booked under Public Safety Act in Sopore for allegedly disrupting law and order

Srinagar: Six persons were booked under Public Safety Act (PSA) on Friday in Sopore area of Baramulla district in northern Kashmir for allegedly disrupting law and order.

The J&K Police booked the six under the stringent PSA for their alleged involvement in recent law and order disturbances and acts of vandalism during a student protest. The PSA is a preventive detention law that allows authorities to detain individuals without trial for up to two years.

The persons booked under PSA were identified as Umar Akbar Hajam, Salman Ahmed Shala, Altaf Ahmed Sheikh, Mubashir Ahmed Gilkar, Muzammil Mushtaq Changa and Majid Firdous Dar, all residents of Sopore.


"All the individuals have been detained under PSA after obtaining proper detention warrants from the competent authority (district magistrate) and have been lodged in District Jail Bhadarwah," said a police spokesman.