HC quashes PSA of journalist

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Feb 19: High Court today quashed the detention order of journalist Majid Hyderi under the Public Safety Act (PSA) and directed his release.

Advocate Mohammad Yousuf Bhat, counsel for the journalist, said that Justice V K Chatterjee quashed the detention of Hyderi under PSA.

Hyderi was arrested in September, 2023 on charges of extortion and defamation. He was booked under the PSA and lodged in Kot Bhalwal Jail.

In the meantime, High Court dismissed a petition filed by advocate Mian Abdul Qayoom challenging his detention under the PSA.

Qayoom was arrested last year in December in connection with the murder of advocate Babar Qadri in 2020.