New Delhi, Sept. 8 -- Officials said Jammu and Kashmir AAP chief and Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Mehraj Malik was detained on Monday under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA) for allegedly disturbing public order in Doda district of Jammu division.

This is for the first time that a sitting MLA has been taken into custody under the PSA, the controversial law that authorises preventive detention of individuals for up to two years without trial in some cases

The officials said that earlier in the day, the 37-year-old AAP MLA was detained by police at Dak Bungalow while he was planning to visit flood-hit areas of his constituency.

They told the news agency PTI that he was later shifted to Bhaderwah district jail under the PSA on...