In order to curb the criminal activities in the district, Samba Police under the overall supervision of SSP Samba Vinay Kumar, JKPS has detained and lodged in jail notorious criminal Sahil Chodhary @ Shallu under the Jammu & Kashmir Public Safety Act (PSA).
The notorious criminal Sahil Choudhary @ Shallu S/o Vijay Kumar R/o Rangoor Camp, Ramgarh, district Samba has been involved in a number of criminal cases including attempt to murder, theft, extortions, cases under Arms Act & other illegal activities and various FIRs have been registered against him at PS Ramgarh, PS Vijaypur and PS Bishnah. His criminal activities have posed a serious threat to public peace and tranquillity.
Following his repeated engagement in criminal activities, detention order was issued by the District Magistrate Samba based on detailed dossier prepared by SSP Samba. The police team led by SHO PS Ramgharh successfully executed the warrant, detained the notorious criminal Sahil Chodhary @ Shallu and lodged in District Jail Jammu.
This successful operation shows the commitment of Samba Police towards ensuring safety of the public and its resolve to counter criminal activities.
The Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978 (PSA) is a preventive detention law under which a person is taken into custody to prevent them from acting harmfully against “the security of the state or the maintenance of the public order” in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir (now a union territory). Whereas PSA applies only to Jammu and Kashmir, it is very similar to the National Security Act that is used by the central and other state governments of India for preventive detention.
It was introduced by the then-Chief Minister, Sheikh Abdullah, in 1978 to ostensibly stop the smuggling of timber. However, the political motives behind the law became clearer when Sheikh Abdullah used it for the first time against political rivals. Since its usage in the late 1970s, it is still being used today for “the security of the state”. Following the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir in 2019, PSA was one of the state laws which was retained under the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act of 2019.
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