Question:Former CM of J&K Omer Abdullah was released on 24th March 2020 after almost eight months in detention. Omer Abdullah is related to which political party?
(a) Bharatiya Janata Party
(b) Peoples Democratic Party
(c) Jammu Kashmir National Conference
(d) Indian National Congress
Answer: (c).
Related facts:
- Former chief minister of Jammau & Kashmir Omar Abdullah has been released from detention after nearly eight months.
- Omer Abdulla was in detention since 5 August last year in view of the abrogation of Article 370.
- He was among thousands of local leaders put under house arrest a day before the disputed regionJ&K was stripped of its semi-autonomous status on 5 August.
- Omer Abdullah house arrest was further extended in February under the controversial Public Safety Act (PSA), which allows detention without charge for up to two years.
- The Jammu & Kashmir Public Safety Act (PSA), 1978 is a preventive detention law, under which a person is taken into custody to prevent him or her from acting in any manner that is prejudicial to “the security of the state or the maintenance of the public order”.
- The erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir ceases to making way for the two newly minted Union territories (UTs) of Ladakh, and Jammu and Kashmir.
- The government appoints Girish Chandra Murmu (Expenditure secretary) the new Lieutenant Governor of J&K and Radha Krishna Mathur (Former defence secretary) as Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh.
Links:
https://m.economictimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/former-jk-cm-omar-abdullah-to-be-released-from-detention-after-seven-months/articleshow/74786857.cms
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/explained-the-jammu-kashmir-public-safety-act/article29438694.ece