\u2018Proposal to release detainees lodged outside J&K put on hold due to lockdown\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Umer Maqbool<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Srinagar, Mar 30 : Amid Coronavirus outbreak, the government has revoked detention orders of 31 persons who were languishing in different jails of J&K under the controversial Public Safety Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Authoritative sources told that Home department has revoked detention orders of 31 persons lodged in different jails of J&K. \u201cAll of them were lodged in jails of J&K,\u201d they said, adding that 11 were lodged in Kotbhalwal jail Jammu, 14 in Central jail Srinagar, four in district jail Rajouri and two in Kathua jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to sources, the list doesn\u2019t include any prominent separatist or mainstream leader detained under the PSA after abrogation of Article 370 by the BJP-led Central government. Former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, bureaucrat-turned-politician<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shah Faesal , National Conference general secretary Ali Muhammad Sagar, former cabinet minister Naeem Akther and three other leaders are in detention under the law after completing six months in preventive detention under the Criminal Procedure Code(CrPC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The release of detainees comes at a time when the Supreme Court has directed states and Union Territories to decongest prisons in the wake of outbreak of deadly COVID-19.Paragraph<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sources disclosed that government has also decided to release a number of PSA detainees lodged in jails outside J&K.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe proposal to release them has put on hold due to nationwide lockdown announced by the Centre to break the chain of transmission of COVID-19. It is difficult to bring them back to J&K in the prevailing situation,\u201d they said. Post abrogation of Article 370 on August 5, 2019, PSA detainees were also lodged in jails of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On December 4, 2019, the Union Home Ministry informed the Parliament that 234 prisoners belonging to J&K are currently lodged in different jails of Uttar Pradesh and 27 other inmates in prisons in Haryana.The shifting of detainees outside J&K became possible only in July 2018 when Governor NN Vohra did away with a legal provision that prohibited government from lodging state subject residents detained under Public Safety Act in jails outside the state.Paragraph<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cProvided that the detenues who are permanent residents of the state shall not be lodged in jails outside the state,\u201d read the provisions which was by deleted by Vohra during Governor\u2019s rule\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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