Seven clerics, including two prominent religious scholars, were arrested under the Public Safety Act (PSA) in the past 24 hours in the Kashmir Valley. The Act allows preventive detention of up to two years without trial.
A senior police officer told The Hindu on Thursday that two religious figures and five Jamaat-e-Islami activists were arrested under the PSA so far. Those arrested include Moulana Abdul Rasheed Dawoodi, patron, Tehreek-e-Soutul Awliya; and Moulana Mushtaq Ahmad Veeri, a prominent figure of the Jamiat-Ahle Hadees.
Preliminary reports suggested that the Islamic religious scholars were shifted from the Kashmir Valley to a Jammu jail.
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