14-year old boy gets draconian PSA, shifted to Kathua Jail

Srinagar, June 17: In Srinagar, Indian police personnel  detained a 14-year-old boy few days ago and booked him today under the draconian Public Safety Act (PSA) and ordered to be sent to the Kathua Jail, Jammu.

The boy, identified as Nayeem Ahmad Dar of Jogi Lankar, Rainawari, had been arrested by the police ten days ago under charges of protest against human rights violations and stone-pelting, and held in a police station.

On Tuesday the police authorities informed his family to send him some clothing as he was being shifted to a jail outside the valley under the Public Safety Act. 

The family plunged into grief on hearing the news, and the boy’s mother fainted with shock.

The cries and screams of the family brought neighbours to the house who tried to comfort the mother.

Sobbing uncontrollably, the boy’s mother said that her son was innocent, and such heavy punishment for him was intolerable.  “If the police felt such a big threat from my son, instead of Kathua he should have been sent to the Srinagar central jail  so that she could meet him,” Dar’s mother said. sources