Chennai: Describing the Public Safety Act as draconian, the DMK on Saturday slammed the Centre for extending the detention of Kashmiri leaders, including former chief ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, and demanded their immediate release.
The Centre had booked the two former chief ministers under the stringent Act on February 6, barely hours before their six-month-long “preventive detention” was to end.
Hitting out at the centre, the main opposition in Tamil Nadu alleged the PSA was draconian and condemned their further detention.
Alleging that such draconian laws could be implemented in any State and against any leader, DMK president M K Stalin said such a scenario was not appropriate for both the country and Centre-State relations.
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