Faesal, a 2010 batch IAS, had resigned from service in January 2019 and floated his own political party, Jammu & Kashmir People’s Movement (JKPM). He had said one of the reasons that provoked him to quit as an IAS officer was “the marginalisation and invisiblisation” of around 200 million Indian Muslims at the hands of Hindutva forces reducing them to second-class citizens.
On Sunday, Shah Faesal had edited his personal details on Twitter, removing the reference to his political affiliations.
Bureaucrat-turned-politician Shah Faesal had formed the J&K People's Movement, while Sartaj Madni and Peer Mansoor are two senior leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) headed by Mehbooba Mufti.
The launch of the new party comes when many prominent leaders of Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti, Omar Abdullah, Shah Faesal among others have been put under house arrest and the draconian Public Safety Act.
Kashmiri IAS topper-turned-politician, Shah Faesal was in August last, detained at the Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport when he was about to board a flight to leave the country.
A 5-judge Constitution bench, headed by Justice NV Ramana, started the hearing with senior advocate Raju Ramachandran arguing the case on behalf of bureaucrat-turned-politician Shah Faesal, Shehla Rashid, and other petitioners.
Rashid said, she can't be a party to the exercise of legitimising the "suppression" of people.
His detention comes a week after the Parliament on August 6 revoked Article 370 of the Constitution and approved bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories.
The move to deploy additional troops has come immediately after the two-day visit of National Security Advisor Ajit Doval to Srinagar where he was reportedly briefed about the security scenario in the valley.
Governor Satya Pal Malik has asked the authorities to see that inconvenience was not caused to civilians during the highway ban.
