DM Doda Informs Assembly Speaker About PSA Detention of Legislator Mehraj Malik

VoM News Desk | September 8, 2025 | 07:52 PM IST | Breaking News, Jammu Kashmir, Politics | Follow on Google News

DM Doda Informs Assembly Speaker About PSA Detention of Legislator Mehraj Malik

Doda/Srinagar, Sept 8: The Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly Secretariat on Monday confirmed the detention of Mehraj Din Malik, Member of Legislative Assembly (Constituency Doda-52), under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act (PSA), 1978.

According to an official bulletin issued by the Assembly Secretariat, the intimation regarding Malik’s detention was received from District Magistrate Doda, Harvinder Singh, IAS, and subsequently published in terms of Rule 260 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the J&K Legislative Assembly for the information of all members.

The District Magistrate’s order stated that Malik was booked under the PSA on grounds of activities “prejudicial to the maintenance of public order.” The decision, it said, was taken after due consideration of reports, materials, and circumstances indicating that the MLA’s continued activities posed “a grave threat to peace, public order, and tranquility in the district.”

“Preventive detention under the PSA was therefore found necessary in the interest of maintaining public order and safeguarding law and order in the region,” the intimation read.

The Assembly Secretariat has circulated the bulletin to all members of the Legislative Assembly, fulfilling the statutory requirement of keeping the House informed about the preventive detention of one of its members.

Malik’s detention is expected to stir political debate in the Union Territory, as he becomes one of the sitting legislators to be booked under the stringent PSA, a law that permits detention without trial for up to two years in certain cases.

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