National Conference leader Omar Abdullah said on Saturday, 13 April, that his party will “withdraw the cases against stone-pelters” if they are elected to power in the state Assembly elections, reported Greater Kashmir.
Abdullah made the comments to the press after campaigning for the party’s candidate for the Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency, Hasnain Masoodi.
“I have already stated in some of the rallies in northern Kashmir that our party will withdraw all cases against the youth charged in stone-throwing cases if we are elected to power,” he was quoted by the newspaper as saying, adding that his party will also do away with the Public Safety Act after coming to power.
Under the Act, suspects can be detained by the police for as many as two years without a trial.
The Assembly elections in the state are not being held simultaneously with the ongoing Lok Sabha elections and a schedule for the former is yet to be decided.