Police on Saturday said they booked 23 “terror associates” of proscribed terror outfits and “miscreants” under the stringent Public Safety Act.
The PSA allows detention without trial up to two years.
“These accused persons have been booked after obtaining formal detention orders from the office of DM Srinagar based on dossiers prepared against them by Srinagar Police.
Consequently, they have been detained and subsequently lodged in District Jails of Poonch, Udhampur, and Kot Balwal Jammu, ” a police statement said.
They said many criminal cases have been registered against these individuals and despite this, they did not mend their ways after getting bailed out from courts.
“They were brazenly involved in the disturbance of public order, criminal and subversive activities against the Nation, ” Police said.
Pertinently, J&K Police has been systemically targeting and dismantling such anti-national and anti-social infrastructure in Srinagar city through it’s relentless crackdown on such elements.
