Srinagar: Government on Tuesday revoked detention order under Public Safety Act against National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah, paving a way for the release of the former Chief Minister who was detained on August 5 last year.
“Govt issues orders revoking detention of Shri Omar Abdullah,” government spokesman Rohit Kansal tweeted.
The order comes less than a week after Supreme Court asked the government of India to inform if it is planning to release Omar from detention.
On February 10, Omar’s sister moved the top Court challenging his detention under the Public Safety Act (PSA).
The PSA dossier prepared by the police against the 50-year-old Omar, who had served as minister of state for external affairs as well as commerce and industries, includes in its charges his ability to convince electorates to vote in huge numbers amid poll boycott calls by separatists and militants.
“The capacity of the subject to influence people for any cause can be gauged from the fact that he was able to convince his electorate to come out and vote in huge numbers even during peak of militancy and poll boycotts,” it had said.
