NEW DELHI: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday launched a pointy assault towards Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah over his demand to take away the controversial Public Security Act within the Union territory.Owaisi reminded Abdullah that the legislation has been “misused” by each elected and unelected authorities, which has led to “untold struggling and human rights violations“.Taking a poetic jibe on J&Ok CM, Owaisi mentioned, “The Public Security Act, 1978 (PSA) was launched by Sheikh Abdullah in 1978 to cope with smuggling. Farooq Abdullah, G M Shah, Mufti Sayeed, GN Azad, Omar Abdullah & Mehbooba Mufti have all been CMs of J&Ok. They may have simply repealed PSA & prevented untold struggling and human rights violations.”“The legislation has been misused by nearly each elected CM & unelected Governors. Over 20,000 folks have been jailed since 1978 with out prison costs, honest trials or perhaps a correct appeals course of. Some detentions have been prolonged for as much as 7-12 years. One separatist was detained beneath the PSA and, when he was later wanted, he was served with a court docket warrant and granted bail. Now there’s a truncated elected govt, and it has dawned on it to dispose of the PSA,” he added.“Sab kuch luta ke hosh mein aaye to kya kiya, Din mein agar chiragh jalaye to kya kiya,” Owaisi additional mentioned.This comes after Omar Abdullah mentioned that an elected authorities will need to have management over state topics, together with legislation and order and safety, for it to take away the PSA.“We mentioned within the manifesto that we’d take away the Public Security and Safety Act (PSA) from Jammu and Kashmir. To take away it, we will need to have statehood. Safety, legislation and order, all these items ought to be beneath the management of the elected authorities,” the JK CM mentioned.“The day these items are ours, I will not even watch for the meeting session. We’ll take away the Jammu and Kashmir Public Security Act (PSA) by an ordinance,” he added.What’s Public Safety ActBeneath the Public Security Act (PSA), authorities can detain a person for as much as two years with out trial. Initially enacted in 1978 to curb timber smuggling, the legislation was later invoked to detain political leaders and people deemed a risk to public order—notably in the course of the militancy surge in Kashmir within the early Nineteen Nineties.Some of the latest detentions beneath the PSA is that of Aam Aadmi Social gathering MLA Mehraj Malik, who has been lodged in Kathua district jail since September 8, 2025, for allegedly disturbing public order in Doda district and utilizing abusive language towards the district’s deputy commissioner.