Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti will remain detained under the stringent Public Safety Act after the authorities extended it by another three months, barely three hours before it was to expire.
The Jammu and Kashmir administration also extended the detention of senior National Conference leader Ali Mohammed Sagar and PDP's Sartaj Madani for three months under the Public Safety Act (PSA).
The order extending the PSA, issued by the home department of the UT, evoked sharp reactions from political parties. "Stifling voices of reason has become the norm for the current dispensation esp post illegal scrapping of Article 370.