JAMMU/SRINAGAR: Aam Aadmi Celebration’s J&Ok unit leader and Doda MLA Mehraj Malik used to be on Monday detained beneath the stringent Public Protection Act (PSA) on fees of stressful public order.Whilst the extraordinary motion got here amid a large protest in opposition to Malik, the lone AAP MLA in J&Ok Meeting, through government staff around the district for allegedly the use of abusive language in opposition to Doda district’s deputy commissioner (DC) Harvinder Singh and the use of a social media platform to focus on him, the transfer drew condemnation from political events, with CM Omar Abdullah describing it as an attack on democracy.“There is not any justification for detaining Mehraj Malik beneath PSA. He’s now not a risk to ‘public protection’ & the use of this discredited regulation to detain him is flawed. If the unelected government can use its powers in opposition to an elected consultant like this then how does any person be expecting the folk of J&Ok to proceed to think about democracy (sic.),” Omar mentioned in a publish on X.AAP nationwide convener Arvind Kejriwal additionally took to X and asserted that the MLA would proceed elevating his voice for the folk. “Is challenging a sanatorium for the folk of your space this sort of grave crime that an elected MLA needs to be thrown in prison for it? Mehraj Malik is the lion of AAP,” Kejriwal mentioned in his publish.BJP and Sikh our bodies, then again, had criticised the MLA’s abusive behaviour with public functionaries, terming him a “ordinary hassle maker” and calling for motion in opposition to him.PAS used to be up to now invoked in opposition to quite a few political functionaries in J&Ok, together with former CMs Farooq Abdullah, Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, who had been detained after the abrogation of Article 370 and held in extended custody beneath the Act, an administrative regulation that permits an individual to be stored in preventive detention for as much as two years at no cost or trial.Malik, who used to be held at Dak Bungalow earlier than being shifted to district prison, addressed his fans on-line, announcing, “I’m preventing for other folks’s rights. It isn’t my circle of relatives’s struggle, it’s the struggle for my other folks.”The row erupted after a police case used to be registered in opposition to the MLA beneath BNS for doing away with scientific apparatus and medicine from a govt-run Ayushman Arogya Mandir, Well being and Wellness Centre, in Kencha village. In a observation on-line, Malik mentioned he had already submitted a request to the Doda leader scientific officer to relocate the well being centre, as demanded through the folk, to a extra appropriate website online. However, at Singh’s behest, an FIR used to be filed in opposition to him for robbery, he alleged, accusing the DC of making an attempt to “favour the mafia”.Protesting government staff condemned using derogatory language and baseless allegations in opposition to the DC, terming them as “unlucky, deplorable and unacceptable”, and lauded the officer for his outstanding carrier, integrity and determination to public welfare, particularly in flood-hit hilly district. The protesters accused the AAP legislator of habitually hurling abuses at senior government officials and inspiring youths in opposition to the respectable equipment.