{"id":50056,"date":"2022-01-17T08:43:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T03:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/jammu-and-kashmir-journalist-detained-under-public-safety-act\/"},"modified":"2022-01-17T08:43:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T03:13:43","slug":"jammu-and-kashmir-journalist-detained-under-public-safety-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=50056","title":{"rendered":"Jammu And Kashmir Journalist Detained Under Public Safety Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Under the PSA, a person can be detained for a period of 3 to 6 months without trial.<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Srinagar: <\/strong>The Jammu and Kashmir administration has detained a journalist, Sajad Gul, under the Public Safety Act, a day after a court granted him bail in connection with a police case that accused him of criminal conspiracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the PSA, a person can be detained for a period of 3 to 6 months without trial. In most of the cases, the PSA is repeatedly used against a detainee to put him in jail for extended period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials say the journalist has been shifted to Kot Balwal Jail in Jammu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sajad Gul was working with a news portal and arrested by police for allegedly &#8220;spreading disinformation through fake tweets regarding the recent anti-terrorist operation&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police have accused him of uploading objectionable videos with anti-national slogans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;His overall activities are prejudicial to the sovereignty, integrity and unity of India,&#8221; said the police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, a magistrate granted him bail, but the police refused to release him and he was subsequently detained under the PSA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the lawyer of detained journalist, police filed a case under attempt to murder charges against the journalist after he was given bail in another case.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the PSA, a person can be detained for a period of 3 to 6 months without trial. Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir administration has detained a journalist, Sajad Gul, under the Public Safety Act, a day after a court granted him bail in connection with a police case that accused him of criminal conspiracy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}