Jammu, Dec. 13 -- CPI(M) MLA Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami on Friday expressed dismay over Aam Aadmi Party's Doda East legislator Mehraj Malik being paraded in handcuffs in a hospital in Kathua on Thursday and appealed to the chief minister Omar Abdullah and members of the J&K assembly to come out with a strong statement and demand an apology from the authorities concerned. The AAP MLA, who has been in jail under the Public Safety Act (PSA) since September 8, was taken to the Government Medical College and Hospital in Kathua in handcuffs by policemen on Thursday for a medical check-up. The video of the handcuffed MLA has been shared widely on social media. Addressing media in Jammu, Tarigami said, "One of our sitting legislators, Mehraj Malik, has been imprisoned under PSA. Using PSA against a legislator is unjust and unlawful. If there were FIRs against him, let the police probe and allow law to take its course. If there is something wrong, the law will take its course and if not, he should be released, but why was PSA invoked against a legislator?" Describing the PSA as a draconian law, Tarigami, who is the Kulgam MLA, recalled how he himself has been its victim. "We know how it is used. There is no justice and no accountability. In our opinion, Malik's arrest under PSA is totally unjustified. Yesterday, in a shocking incident he was paraded in handcuffs in the hospital." The MLA called it a "blatant violation of rights of a legislator in broad daylight". Referring to former Supreme Court justice VR Krishna Iyer, who called handcuffing a violation of an individual's dignity, he said: "Justice Iyer had ruled out even handcuffing convicted criminals and called it violation of dignity, an inhumane and degraded act. You can't humiliate a prisoner, what to talk of a legislator. It's shameful and highly unacceptable," he said. "Handcuffing Malik is sheer humiliation for the entire legislature and the whole set of law. Therefore, I strongly protest and appeal to all law makers and the administration to withdraw charges against Malik under the PSA and release him. Those who handcuffed and publicly humiliated him must apologise. That is our elementary demand from the government," he said. Tarigami said that he would meet the CM and appeal to the government to come out with a strongly worded statement. "We can only demand from the rest of my colleagues that they should step in and the elected government must record its strong protest," he added....