Face of Nation : Former IAS officer Shah Faesal was on Wednesday afternoon detained at the Delhi airport after which he was sent back to Kashmir.
After he was taken into custody, Shah Faesal was shifted to Srinagar where he was again detained under the Public Safety Act (PSA). Faesal was bound for Istanbul, an official was quoted as saying by news agency Press Trust of India The ex-IAS officer, who was reportedly stopped from leaving the country, has now been placed under house arrest in Kashmir.
“Kashmir is experiencing an unprecedented lock-down. From Zero Bridge to Airport some movement of vehicles is visible. Other places are completely out of bounds. Except for patients or those with a curfew pass,” Faesal, the president of the J&K Peoples Movement party, had said in a Facebook post.
“People are in shock. Numb. Yet to make sense of what befell them. Everyone is mourning what we lost. In my conversations with people besides 370, it’s the loss of statehood that has hurt people deeply. This is being seen as the biggest betrayal by the Indian state in the last 70 years,” said Shah Faesal.
The former civil servant had said, “My appeal has also been that let’s stay alive, then we shall fight back.”He had also accused the international community of closing its eyes on Kashmir. “So I am not expecting anything from there. The sad fact of life is that only (Prime Minister) Narendra Modi and (Union Home Minister) Amit Shah can one day give back to us the wealth that has been stolen from us in broad daylight. But then what’s lost has been lost.
