Faesal, Madani, Mansoor ‘informally’ asked to stay indoors

Srinagar, June 5

IAS officer-turned-politician Shah Faesal and two PDP members, including the maternal uncle of former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, who were released from detention under the PSA earlier this week have been “informally” told not to move out of their houses, claimed sources.

The three were shifted to their official residences on Wednesday after they were released following revocation of the controversial Public Safety Act (PSA) against them by the Home Department of the union territory.

However, they were conveyed informally that they should not step out of their homes and a police guard has also been posted outside, the sources said.

When contacted, Sartaj Madani, uncle of Mehbooba Mufti, told PTI over phone that he was not sure whether he had been kept under house arrest but said that he was not allowed to go to his native village in south Kashmir’s Bijbehara.

“I was told that I cannot go without assigning any reason,” he said.

Efforts to seek a reaction from Peer Mansoor, political advisor during Mehbooba Mufti’s tenure as Chief Minister, and Faesal, a 2010 batch IAS officer did not fructify as their phones were not reachable.

The three were among a host of political leaders detained initially under preventive custody and later under the PSA in the aftermath of August 5 when the Centre withdrew the special status of the erstwhile state and bifurcated it into two union territories – Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir. PTI