Abdullah, Mufti and now Shah Faesal booked under PSA

After Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, Shah Faesal now becomes the seventh mainstream politician who has now been booked under Public Safety Act.

Srinagar:Days after the Public Safety Act (PSA) was slapped against former Jammu and Kashmir chief ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, bureaucrat-turned-politician Shah Faesal has now been booked under the stringent law.

The former IAS topper is the seventh mainstream politician of Kashmir who has been booked under the PSA which allows detention from three months to two years without a trial.

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Earlier, senior Peoples' Democratic Party leader Naeem Akhtar was booked under the Public Safety Act. National Conference General Secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar and senior PDP leader Sartaj Madni, uncle of Mehbooba Mufti, have also been booked under the PSA.

Omar's father, three-time former CM and sitting MP Farooq Abdullah is already booked under the PSA and lodged at his Srinagar residence, which has been designated as a sub-jail.

(With inputs from PTI)