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The Jammu & Kashmir High Court connected Thursday (December 18, 2025) heard the Public Safety Act (PSA) lawsuit of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislator Mehraj Malik, who has spent astir 100 days successful jail, and set December 27 arsenic the adjacent time of hearing.
“The lawyers representing MLA Malik concluded their arguments and placed applicable judgments earlier the tribunal successful the case. In the past 2 hearings, the lawyers argued for much than six-and-a-half hours. The tribunal volition perceive the arguments of the J&K Government connected the grounds of detention connected December 7,” Advocate Zulkarnain Choudhary, 1 of the lawyers representing MLA Malik, said.
Mr. Choudhary said the lawsuit was important for the J&K Government arsenic good arsenic people. “A sitting legislator has been illegally booked. There is an maltreatment of powerfulness and malafide workout of the authorities arsenic the detention bid passed by the Deputy Commissioner connected the ground of regular diary of the police. We person challenged the same,” Mr. Choudhary said.
This is for the archetypal clip that a sitting MLA has been detained nether the PSA, a instrumentality that allows detention without complaint oregon proceedings for up to 2 years. Mr. Malik won the 2024 Assembly elections and defeated a BJP candidate. Earlier, helium had won the District Development Council elections from Kahara constituency of Doda successful 2020.
