Reports said Sara Abdullah Pilot argued her brother's detention is a grave violation of his constitutional rights including that of freedom of speech, and is part of a "consistent and concerted effort to muzzle all political rivals".

Omar Abdullah, detained without charges since August 5 -- when the government ended special status to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 -- was formally detained under the PSA last week.   

 

The plea challenging Omar Abdullah’s detention says there could be no material available to detain a person who has already been detained for the previous six months; that grounds for the detention are wholly lacking any material facts

 

A reference to all the public statements and messages posted by Omar Abdullah during the period up to his first detention would reveal that he kept calling for peace and co-operation messages which in Gandhi’s India cannot remotely affect public order," the plea added.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel

 

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti were booked on February 6 under the Public Safety Act (PSA), barely hours before their six-month-long "preventive detention" were to come to an end.  (KNS)