Overview

• Singh alleged police kept him inside a government guest house in Srinagar when he tried to protest over AAP MLA Mehraj Malik’s detention under the Public Safety Act.
• National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah was stopped at the gate as he tried to meet Singh, with the two speaking across the locked entrance.
• Doda remains under prohibitory orders issued under BNSS Section 163, with mobile internet and WiFi suspended and schools closed until September 14.
• Police have taken about 80 people into preventive custody after clashes over Malik’s detention, and officials reported injuries to several police personnel.
• A suspected blast was reported in Doda’s Dumri Mohalla near Jamia Masjid, with two persons detained for questioning as Malik remains lodged in Kathua jail in what reports describe as the first PSA detention of a sitting J&K MLA.