PSA dossier cites Omar Abdullah's considerable influence and Mehbooba Mufti's support for separatists, reason for detention: report
Jammu/IBNS: The Public Security Act(PSA) dossier prepared by the police has cited former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's "considerable influence" over people and his political opponent and PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti's pro-separatist stand as the reasons for their detention under the act, reports said.
While 60-year-old PDP chief and former Chief Minister of Jammu Kashmir Mehbooba has been accused of making anti-national statements and supporting organisations Jamaat-e-Islamia, outlawed under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), her counterpart Abdullah has been stated to be wielding "considerable influence" over the masses, including the ability to get people to vote in large numbers despite poll boycott by militant and separatist organisations.
The dossier said that 49-year-old Omar had tried to instigate people on the eve of abrogation of Articles 370 and 35 A.
Both Abdullah and Mufti are kept under preventive detention since Aug 5 last year, a day before the government revoked the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, and bifurcated the erstwhile state into union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
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