The Jammu and Kashmir administration under lieutenant governor G.C. Murmu has released dozens of purported pro-azadi Kashmiri activists jailed in the Union Territory and elsewhere, the global pandemic apparently playing a part in the decision. Most of them had been charged under the draconian Public Safety Act during last year’s clampdown, sources said. Senior officials said the move followed last month’s Supreme Court directive to states to consider releasing detainees on parole to de-congest prisons in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak. They include 45 booked under the PSA.” The released prisoners include pro-azadi activists.

Source: The Telegraph April 14, 2020 22:41 UTC