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Controversy Unleashed: MLA Mehraj Malik's Arrest Under PSA Sparks Protest
Mehraj Din Malik, Doda MLA, faces one-year detention under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act for alleged public order disruption and multiple FIRs, officials said.
- On Monday, Aam Aadmi Party MLA Mehraj Din Malik was arrested at the Dak Bungalow, Doda, and booked under the Public Safety Act before being shifted to Bhaderwah jail.
- The Deputy Commissioner’s bulletin stated Malik's activities were deemed prejudicial to public order and a grave threat to peace in Doda, citing 18 FIRs and multiple complaints as grounds for detention under the Public Safety Act, 1978 by the Doda district administration.
- Legal notices point out that Mehraj Din Malik is the first sitting MLA detained under the Public Safety Act 1978, which permits preventive detention without trial, and officials note his Assembly membership remains intact since he is unconvicted.
- Government employees in Doda staged a pen-down strike backing Deputy Commissioner Harvinder Singh, while Sajad Gani Lone, Peoples Conference chief, and Waheed Parra, PDP legislature party chief, condemned the PSA use against MLA Mehraj Malik.
- Malik, who rose quickly in local politics, won Doda by 4,538 votes in the 2024 Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections and earlier won a DDC seat in 2020, but faces FIR No. 90/2025 and controversy over the Thathri health-centre incident.
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J-K parties condemn detention of AAP MLA Mehraj Malik under PSA
Srinagar: Cutting across party lines, ruling National Conference, opposition PDP and People’s Conference on Monday condemned the detention of AAP MLA from Doda, Mehraj Malik, under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA), saying it was an “assault on democracy”. “Strongly condemn the use of PSA against MLA Doda @MehrajMalikAAP. Detaining elected representatives under draconian laws sets a dangerous precedent in J&K post-2019, stifling democracy an…
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