Srinagar, Sep 8, KNT: Member of Parliament Rahullah Mehdi on Monday said that invoking the Public Safety Act (PSA) against MLA Mehraj Malik is unjustifiable and goes against democratic principles.
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Mehdi said that if an elected representative has erred, he must be questioned and dealt with under due process of law. “That is how accountability works in a democracy,” he remarked.
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He pointed out that the PSA, intended only for exceptional cases of grave security threats, has been repeatedly misused in Jammu and Kashmir to detain individuals on vague and arbitrary grounds. “It has effectively become a tool to silence voices. Such misuse erodes public trust in institutions and reduces a legal safeguard into an instrument of suppression,” Mehdi observed.
While strongly condemning the use of abusive language by MLA Mehraj Malik, Mehdi said preventive detention is not justice but repression. “Accountability cannot come through silencing. True justice lies in transparency and due legal process,” he added. [KNT]
