Mayor of Srinagar, Junaid Azim Mattu, who was earlier with the National Conference and now with the Apni Party, also came up with a series of charges against the NC over the law. “A 2010 report suggests that up to 20,000 persons were detained under the PSA in J&K since it was enacted in 1978 by Sheikh Abdullah. 80 per cent of these detentions happened under the JKNC rule. The Courts quashed 1,706 detention orders between 2008 and 2017. 82% of these quashed orders were PSAs enacted by the JKNC-led government between 2008 and 2014,” Mattu said. “Neither the JKNC nor the State Government recommended the amendments to PSA. The PSA was amended in 2012 following the recommendations of the then Prime Minister’s Working Group on CBMs!,” Mattu claimed. “The amendments were grossly abused and sidestepped in reality!” he added.