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2 terror associates detained under Public Safety Act in Budgam

Police on Sunday detained two terror associates under Public Safety Act in Budgam. Police said that in a move against terrorism and acting tough against anti-national elements Police today detained two “hardcore” Over Ground Workers (OGWs) affiliated with terrorist ranks under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA).

A security official stands guard at Boulevard Road, in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terrorist attack, in Srinagar, on Sunday. (PTI)

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Updated on Apr 27, 2025 09:55 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Srinagar

Preventive detention ‘draconian’ measure, needs safeguards: SC

The top court said preventive detention can’t override fundamental rights without strict adherence to procedural protections

The current case pertained to Ashraf Hussain Choudhary and his wife, Adaliu Chawang, who were placed under preventive detention by the Nagaland government under the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1988. (HT Archive)

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Published on Mar 06, 2025 06:56 AM IST

ByUtkarsh Anand

Lone walks out of J&K assembly

People’s Conference chairman Sajjad Lone on Tuesday walked out from J&K legislative assembly after the speaker disallowed his amendments to LG’s address regarding police verifications, Article 370 and Public Safety Act.

People's Conference chairman Sajjad Gani Lone speaks during the Budget session of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, in Jammu, on Tuesday. (Waseem Andrabi /HT)

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Published on Mar 05, 2025 06:26 AM IST

ByMir Ehsan, Srinagar

Langate AIP MLA protests civilian killings, wants statehood restored in J&K

heikh Khursheed Ahmad attempted to enter the central hall of the assembly and display the banner during lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha’s address on the opening day of the budget session but was prevented from doing so.

Langate Awami Itehad Party (AIP) legislator Sheikh Khursheed Ahmad held a protest in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly premises to demand the restoration of statehood and justice for the families of two persons killed in Kathua and Sopore recently. (Waseem Andrabi/HT)

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Published on Mar 03, 2025 04:18 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Cattle smuggler detained under PSA in J&K’s Samba

Yaqoob Ali alias Juka, a resident of Madhera, was lodged in district jail Kathua under PSA after his formal detention orders were obtained from the district magistrate, Samba, a police official said

Ali, who was apprehended from the Kathua-Punjab border, was involved in several criminal cases and posed a serious threat to peace and tranquillity in the region, the official said. (Representative)

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Published on Feb 24, 2025 06:04 AM IST

ByPress Trust of India, Jammu

Scribe Majid Hyderi’s detention quashed: Criticism of govt policies no ground for detention, rules high court

Hyderi (43), a journalist and TV debater, was arrested on September 15, 2023 in a case related to “defamation and intimidation”. When he got bail, the police didn’t release him but instead booked him under the PSA on September 16, 2023 maintaining that he “poses a serious threat to national security or public order”.

Justice Vinod Chatterji Koul, while pronouncing the judgement on Wednesday, quashed Hyderi’s detention order while reiterating a judgement of division bench. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

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Published on Feb 21, 2025 09:40 AM IST

ByAshiq Hussain, Srinagar

Jammu: BJP youth leader shot at by PDD employee over parking

Sharma, a lawyer by profession, suffered two bullet injuries and was rushed to government hospital in Sarwal, from where he was referred to Government Medical College in Bakshi Nagar

Jammu district president of the BJP Yuva Morcha Kanav Sharma being treated at a hospital after suffering a bullet injury on Friday. (PTI)

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Updated on Jan 04, 2025 06:02 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Jammu

Two OGWs detained under PSA in J&K’s Kishtwar, Kathua

In Kishtwar, police booked Jaffer Hussain Butt, an over-ground worker (OGW) from Hunjala, under the Public Safety Act (PSA) for actively aiding banned outfits in their unlawful activities, the spokesperson said, adding that his actions posed a grave threat to the stability and security of the region.

The move aims to safeguard the youth of Kishtwar from being influenced by such individuals and to ensure law and order in the district, says the police spokesperson. (iStock)

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Updated on Dec 28, 2024 05:04 AM IST

ByPress Trust of India, Jammu

Two terror associates detained under PSA in Udhampur’s Basantgarh

Basantgarh, notably, has become a hotbed of terrorism over the last couple of years with Pakistan-based terrorists conducting shoot-and-scoot attacks on security forces

Jammu and Kashmir Police on Tuesday detained two women overground workers. (File)

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Published on Dec 03, 2024 10:03 PM IST

ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria, Jammu

BJP ‘diverting’ attention from failure to tackle terrorism in J&K: Congress

Addressing media persons, JKPCC chief spokesperson Ravinder Sharma questioned the “BJP’s failure in containing terrorism which is taking toll of the lives of people on daily basis”

J&K has been hit by a spate of terror attacks. (File)

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Updated on Nov 09, 2024 07:38 AM IST

ByHT Correspndent, Jammu

Former Jammu and Kashmir Bar body general secretary held under PSA charges

The former Jammu and Kashmir Bar body general secretary’s family and colleagues said he was arrested on Tuesday night from his house in Srinagar and has been booked under Public Safety Act

A former Jammu and Kashmir Bar body general secretary was arrested under PSA charges. (Filr)

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Updated on Jul 19, 2024 09:30 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Srinagar

Maharashtra's draft Public Safety Act gets state cabinet nod

The draft bill was prepared after studying similar laws in states like Chhattisgarh and Telangana, said officials

Modelled after the draconian Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act, 2005, Maharashtra's draft Public Safety Act has several stringent provisions(PTI)

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Updated on Jul 06, 2024 02:09 AM IST

BySurendra P Gangan, Mumbai

Five booked under PSA

Police said that all five persons were involved in anti-national activities and their formal detention orders were issued by competent authority

Those slapped with PSA have been identified as Maqsad Ali Kohli of Navarunda Uri, Mohammad Usman Bhat of Sahora Uri and Ghulam Nabi Wani of Chandkote Kreeri. (iStock)

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Updated on Apr 24, 2024 06:58 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Srinagar

5 booked under Public Safety Act in Baramulla

The five accused have been identified as Asif Ali Bhat, Mohammad Yaqoob Bhat, Waseem Mehraj Farash, Bashir Ahmad Sualiah and Bilal Ahmad Dar alias Shakir, he said

“Police in Baramulla booked five persons under the Public Safety Act after obtaining formal detention orders from the competent authority,” a police spokesperson said (iStock)

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Published on Apr 01, 2024 10:43 PM IST

ByPress Trust of India, Srinagar

2 overground workers booked under PSA in Baramulla

Police said the arrested persons who acted as overground workers of militant groups had many cases registered against them and identified them as Fayaz Ahmad Kumar and Safeer Ahmad Bhat.

Police on Monday claimed to have booked two overground workers of militant groups under the Public Safety Act (PSA) and shifted them to Central Jail, Kot Bilwal, Jammu. (Getty Images/ Representational image)

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Updated on Jan 30, 2024 08:12 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Srinagar

Two wanted drug peddlers held in Doda

Surinder Kumar of Chakrabhati and Mohd Sohail alias “Ganja” of Bhaderwah have been booked under the PSA for their alleged involvement in illicit drug trafficking and lodged in Bhaderwah district jail, a police spokesperson said

“Both the individuals being habitual offenders were a serious threat to the local youth and their detention under the PSA will act as deterrence to the criminals and drug smugglers still at large,” police said (iStock)

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Updated on Jan 08, 2024 06:16 AM IST

ByPress Trust of India, Jammu

HC quashes PSA detention of Kashmir scribe

The police had arrested and booked Sajad Ahmad Dar alias Sajad Gul from Hajin in Bandipora after orders of district magistrate in January 2022

The court said that the grounds of detention nowhere suggest that he had filed or uploaded any false story. (iStock)

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Updated on Nov 19, 2023 07:10 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Srinagar

Three overground terror operatives detained in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar

Police said the operation to detain the three was executed meticulously after obtaining PSA orders from the competent authority

The detained trio Touseef-ul-Nabi, Zahoor-ul-Hassan and Reyaz Ahmad. (HT Photo)

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Published on Sep 19, 2023 03:28 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Jammu

High court quashes detention of two clerics in Kashmir

The Bharatiya Janata Party welcomed the quashing of detention orders, while Apni Party’s Altaf Bukhari urged the administration to release Hurriyat chairperson Mirwaiz Kashmir, Molvi Umar Farooq, who is under house detention

Kashmir additional director general of police (ADGP) Vijay Kumar had defended booking of religious preachers, claiming that they were instigating youth. (Shutterstock)

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Published on Sep 09, 2023 10:59 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Srinagar

Kashmir: Former militant booked under Public Safety Act

The former militant, who is also member of the APHC, has been identified by the police as Ameer Hamza of Quilmuqam village

Police said the accused was involved in anti-national activities.

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Updated on Jul 14, 2023 11:38 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Srinagar

Srinagar: BJP leader among two arrested for extortion

Senior BJP leader Mudasir Wani and another person have been arrested by police for demanding money to release a person from detention. Wani is the vice-president of the Baramulla BJP unit.

The police in a statement said on July 3, Faisal Bashir Saleh of Kanlibagh Baramulla approached Baramulla police station along with a written application stating that his father Bashir Ahmad Saleh who was detained under the PSA since 2022, two persons — Mudasir Ahmad Wani of Sangri Baramulla and Yasir Rashid Rather of Malpora Sheeri — claiming to be affiliated with a political party approached their family to get his father released from the custody and demanded <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>1 lakh.

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Updated on Jul 04, 2023 10:33 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Srinagar

J&K: 3 drug smugglers among six booked under PSA in Baramulla

Police on Tuesday booked six persons including three notorious drug smugglers under Public Safety Act for anti-national activities in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district

Police said three persons involved in anti-national activities have been detained under Public Safety Act. (Representational Photo)

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Updated on Jun 14, 2023 12:10 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Srinagar

Public Safety Act slapped on hardcore criminal, jailed

Notorious criminal Mohammad Ashraf Khan was detained under the Public Safety Act and sent to jail in Rajouri district. He had nine criminal cases against him.

He was sent to the Dhangri district jail in Rajouri on the orders of Rajouri deputy magistrate Vikas Kundal.

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Updated on Jun 01, 2023 10:42 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Jammu

J&K: 4 booked under PSA for anti-national activities in Baramulla

A police spokesperson said many cases were registered against the four as they were allegedly involved in anti-national activities

The accused were booked after obtaining formal detention orders from the competent authority, a police spokesperson said. They have been detained and subsequently lodged in Central Jail Kot-Balwal Jammu. (Getty images)

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Updated on May 27, 2023 12:30 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Srinagar

Assam prison turns into a fortress for Amritpal Singh’s 9 aides

The nine men at the Assam prison are accomplices, associates, and aides of pro-Khalistan separatist Amritpal Singh.

Security personnel at Assam’s Dibrugarh Central Jail. (PTI)

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Updated on Apr 19, 2023 05:36 AM IST

ByPrawesh Lama

National Safety Day today; ministers tweet. Know about history, significance

'National Safety Day' is observed annually on March 4 to commemorate the establishment of National Safety Council and raising public awareness about following safety norms in all aspects of lives.

National Safety Day is observed annually on March 4 to commemorate the foundation of National Safety Council of India.(Twitter/Punjab CMO)

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Updated on Mar 04, 2023 11:32 AM IST

ByNisha Anand | Edited by Aniruddha Dhar

Release Omar Abdullah soon, or will hear his sister’s plea: Supreme Court to Centre

The NC leader has been in detention under the Public Safety Act since August 5 last year, when the Centre revoked the Jammu and Kashmir’s special status and divided the state into two union territories.

File photo of former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah.(AFP)

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Updated on Mar 18, 2020 12:49 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Will work with all for Jammu and Kashmir statehood, says PM Narendra Modi

Prime Minister Modi made the statement at a meeting with a 24-member delegation of the newly formed Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party, led by its leader Altaf Bukhari, a day after setting free former chief minister Farooq Abdullah from detention under the tough Public Safety Act (PSA).

Prime Minister Narendra Modi engaged with the 24-member delegation of Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party on issues including concerns on demographic change, a delimitation exercise Jammu and Kashmir and grant of state domicile.(PTI)

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Updated on Mar 15, 2020 06:42 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi/Srinagar | ByHT Correspondents

Farooq may respond if govt reaches out, says Ex-RAW chief AS Dulat

The government sent Dulat on a top secret mission to Srinagar, to meet the former CM and suss out his mood after the nullification of Article 370 in August last year.

Ex-RAW chief AS Dulat said that Farooq Abdullah also expressed concern about the impact of the nullification of Article 370 and all the subsequent developments in Kashmir on his grandchildren.(Ravindra Joshi/HT File Photo)

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Updated on Mar 15, 2020 01:45 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

‘No cause for celebrations’: Local residents indifferent to Farooq’s release

The Jammu and Kashmir administration’s order to revoke the Public Safety Act, under which he was held, came as a surprise to many.

Farooq Abdullah offers prayers at his father Sheikh Abdullah's grave at Hazratbal on the banks of the Dal Lake, in Srinagar on Friday(PTI)

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Updated on Mar 14, 2020 04:36 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Srinagar | ByAshiq Hussain

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The top court said preventive detention can’t override fundamental rights without strict adherence to procedural protections

People’s Conference chairman Sajjad Lone on Tuesday walked out from J&K legislative assembly after the speaker disallowed his amendments to LG’s address regarding police verifications, Article 370 and Public Safety Act.

heikh Khursheed Ahmad attempted to enter the central hall of the assembly and display the banner during lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha’s address on the opening day of the budget session but was prevented from doing so.

Yaqoob Ali alias Juka, a resident of Madhera, was lodged in district jail Kathua under PSA after his formal detention orders were obtained from the district magistrate, Samba, a police official said

Sharma, a lawyer by profession, suffered two bullet injuries and was rushed to government hospital in Sarwal, from where he was referred to Government Medical College in Bakshi Nagar

Basantgarh, notably, has become a hotbed of terrorism over the last couple of years with Pakistan-based terrorists conducting shoot-and-scoot attacks on security forces

Addressing media persons, JKPCC chief spokesperson Ravinder Sharma questioned the “BJP’s failure in containing terrorism which is taking toll of the lives of people on daily basis”

The former Jammu and Kashmir Bar body general secretary’s family and colleagues said he was arrested on Tuesday night from his house in Srinagar and has been booked under Public Safety Act

The draft bill was prepared after studying similar laws in states like Chhattisgarh and Telangana, said officials

Police said that all five persons were involved in anti-national activities and their formal detention orders were issued by competent authority

The five accused have been identified as Asif Ali Bhat, Mohammad Yaqoob Bhat, Waseem Mehraj Farash, Bashir Ahmad Sualiah and Bilal Ahmad Dar alias Shakir, he said

Police said the arrested persons who acted as overground workers of militant groups had many cases registered against them and identified them as Fayaz Ahmad Kumar and Safeer Ahmad Bhat.

Surinder Kumar of Chakrabhati and Mohd Sohail alias “Ganja” of Bhaderwah have been booked under the PSA for their alleged involvement in illicit drug trafficking and lodged in Bhaderwah district jail, a police spokesperson said

The police had arrested and booked Sajad Ahmad Dar alias Sajad Gul from Hajin in Bandipora after orders of district magistrate in January 2022

Police said the operation to detain the three was executed meticulously after obtaining PSA orders from the competent authority

The Bharatiya Janata Party welcomed the quashing of detention orders, while Apni Party’s Altaf Bukhari urged the administration to release Hurriyat chairperson Mirwaiz Kashmir, Molvi Umar Farooq, who is under house detention

The former militant, who is also member of the APHC, has been identified by the police as Ameer Hamza of Quilmuqam village

Senior BJP leader Mudasir Wani and another person have been arrested by police for demanding money to release a person from detention. Wani is the vice-president of the Baramulla BJP unit.

Police on Tuesday booked six persons including three notorious drug smugglers under Public Safety Act for anti-national activities in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district

Notorious criminal Mohammad Ashraf Khan was detained under the Public Safety Act and sent to jail in Rajouri district. He had nine criminal cases against him.

A police spokesperson said many cases were registered against the four as they were allegedly involved in anti-national activities

The nine men at the Assam prison are accomplices, associates, and aides of pro-Khalistan separatist Amritpal Singh.

'National Safety Day' is observed annually on March 4 to commemorate the establishment of National Safety Council and raising public awareness about following safety norms in all aspects of lives.

The NC leader has been in detention under the Public Safety Act since August 5 last year, when the Centre revoked the Jammu and Kashmir’s special status and divided the state into two union territories.

Prime Minister Modi made the statement at a meeting with a 24-member delegation of the newly formed Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party, led by its leader Altaf Bukhari, a day after setting free former chief minister Farooq Abdullah from detention under the tough Public Safety Act (PSA).

The government sent Dulat on a top secret mission to Srinagar, to meet the former CM and suss out his mood after the nullification of Article 370 in August last year.

The Jammu and Kashmir administration’s order to revoke the Public Safety Act, under which he was held, came as a surprise to many.

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