Videos of Malik being paraded in handcuffs in the hospital have gone viral and the issue has snowballed into a controversy with several netizens calling handcuffing of an elected MLA ‘disgraceful’.
The petition against the detention of Malik under the Public Safety Act (PSA) was listed before Justice Rajneesh Oswal.
Malik, the MLA from the Doda (East) Assembly constituency, was detained under the PSA on 8 September on the orders of the District Magistrate, Doda, under Section 8 of the J&K Public Safety Act, 1978.
In a dramatic turn of events, Singh was confined to a government guest house in Srinagar and prevented from holding a press conference or protest against the illegal arrest of AAP MLA Mehraj Malik.
CRPF and J&K Police personnel were deployed in strength to prevent the situation from further aggravating.
Omar expressed his views in a post on X.
This is for the first time in Jammu and Kashmir that a sitting MLA has been detained under the PSA.
