SRINAGAR, April 12 -- Defending the maximum period of detention prescribed under the controversial Public Safety Act (PSA) 1978, which Amnesty International has described as a "lawless law", the Jammu & Kashmir administration has submitted that the legal instrument shall be deemed an Act passed by Parliament as it had been retained through the Jammu & Kashmir Reorganisation Act when the Centre reorganised the former state into two union territories in 2019.
The J&K government made the written submission after a plea in the J&K high court challenged the maximum period of detention stipulated under the controversial law. The grounds for the submission were that Parliament now has the sole authority to prescribe it as these powers are no long...