browser Mehbooba, Omar booked under Public Safety Act Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief ministers Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah, besides two political stalwarts from National Conference and PDP were on Thursday booked under the stringent Public Safety Act ( PSA) u2014 which allows detention for up to two years without a trial or charge. Their six- month preventive custody ended on Thursday.
10 Cong- JD( S) defectors get Cabinet berth Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Thursday rewarded with Cabinet berth 10 defectors, who helped the BJP bring down the Congress- JD( S) coalition and come to power. The cabinet expansion led to dissatisfaction among a section of u201c nativeu201d BJP leaders who were left out. The ten are: S T Somashekar, Ramesh Jarkiholi, Anand Singh, K Sudhakar, Byrathi Basavaraj, A Shivaram Hebbar, B C Patil, K Gopalaiah, K C Narayana, Gowda, and Shrimant Balasaheb Patil.
Sedition case against 130 anti- CAA protesters Azamgarh ( UP): The police have booked 135 people protesting against the Citizenship ( Amendment) Act for sedition and arrested 20 of them. In the FIR, only 35 people have been named and the rest are unidentified, police said. The FIR lists sedition among the charges. The protesters accused the police of thrashing them.
Police, however, said they used tear gas shells to tackle the protesters when they became unruly.
