Srinagar, Feb 20:
Former political advisor and close aide of PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, Peer
Mansoor,was booked under the stringent Pubic Safety Act .
Mansoor is the
fourth senior party leader including the former J&K chief minister Mehbooba
Mufti to be booked under the PSA in the last couple of weeks.
Peer Manzoor, a
former legislator who hails from south Kashmir, was detained ahead of
revocation of Article 370 on August 5, 2019.
He was served PSA
detention order on Wednesday night by the officials at the MLA hostel, where he
was being kept.
“Yes, Peer
Mansoor has been booked under PSA and was served last night,’’ a senior PDP
leader said on Thursday.
Peer Mansoor
continues to remain lodged at the MLA hostel along with bureaucrat turned
politician Shah Faesal and Hilal Lone, son of Baramulla MP Akbar Lone.
The MLA hostel
has been converted into a sub-jail, where as many as 34 political leaders of
various mainstream parties like the National Conference (JKNC), Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), Peoples’ Conference (JKPC) and Peoples’ Movement (JKPM)
have been kept since November 17 last year.
They were
previously kept in detention at the Centaur Hotel since the abrogation of
J&K’s special status on August 5, 2019.
In the last three
weeks, most of the leaders have either been shifted to their homes or other
detention centers.
Shah Faesal and
Hilal Lone were booked under the public safety act (PSA) for three months on
February 15 and 10 respectively.
Earlier, senior
Jammu and Kashmir leaders, Naeem Akhtar and Sartaj Madni, both from the PDP,
were shifted to M5 quarters from the MLA hostel along with Ali Mohammad Sagar
(NC), after they were slapped with the PSA.
Two former chief
ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, who are under detention at two
separate places, were also booked under the PSA on February 6. NC president
Farooq Abdullah is detained at his Gupkar house.
On February 5, PC
chairman Sajjad Lone and PDP youth president Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra were
released from the MLA Hostel and put under house detention.
The
administration had released five mainstream leaders including three former
legislators from detention on January 16 and five others on December 30, 2019.