Srinagar, Sept. 14 -- Former J&K chief ministers Mehbooba Mufti and Farooq Abdullah have demanded release of Doda legislator Mehraj Malik. The PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday termed the arrest of MLA Mehraj Malik under Public Safety Act (PSA) an attack on democracy and urged the J&K assembly speaker to call a special session of the assembly. NC president Farooq Abdullah appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah for their intervention for the release of Malik.

Mehbooba Mufti told reporters that after the arrest of Mehraj Malik the J&K legislative assembly speaker should have called a special session of assembly and passed a resolution seeking release of the Doda legislator. "The resolution should ...