Malik is the primary sitting council member at J&Okay detained underneath the PSA. This permits the administration to take care of folks underneath preventive detention with out trial, if the remaining freedoms may disrupt public order and peace or threaten nationwide safety.
The 37-year-old Doda MLA despatched to Bhaderwah jail was named in 18 FIRs and a diary (DD) report on the sixteenth at varied police stations in Doda district, officers stated. They argued that he was more and more inflicting obstruction of public order, particularly at a time when the district administration was busy launching aid measures for these hit by current heavy rains and flash floods.
Malik has been accused of attacking officers on responsibility, locking them inside their places of work, and publicly abuse and threatening them, officers stated, including that he’s additionally going through expenses of accusations of buying them.
The PSA imposition is not going to have an effect on his membership within the J&Okay Legislative Meeting, as he has not been convicted in any of the circumstances he has been registered to this point.
Malik was shocked when he gained the AAP their first seat in Union Territories in final 12 months’s J&Okay Meeting election. He bagged the Doda seat within the Jammu area, beating BJP candidate Gajay Singh Rana with 4,538 votes.
Just some months in the past, he was competing as an impartial within the 2024 Lok Saba election in Udhanpur constituency, however got here in fourth. This was a very powerful seat, with Malik sitting in opposition to MP and Union Minister Jitendra Singh and Congress heavyweight Chaudhary Lal Singh.
Earlier than final 12 months’s parliamentary vote, Malik gained the Doda District Growth Council (DDC) election from Kahala Constituency in 2020.
Shortly after becoming a member of AAP in 2013, a 12 months after graduating from Jammu College, Malik started creating ripples by addressing problems with consuming water, electrical energy, healthcare amenities, academic infrastructure and absenteeism. AAP Management appointed him as co-chair of the Nationwide Celebration Coordination Committee in 2022.
In March 2022, thought of a present of AAP energy at J&Okay, Malik led a large rally from Kahala to Doda City to focus on quite a lot of public points.
A number of locals say that when many Jammu leaders selected to restrict themselves to their houses within the wake of the abolition of Article 370, which granted particular standing to J&Okay, Malik had taken them to the streets to boost the problems of individuals.
In 2023, Malik led an illustration in opposition to the willingness to eviction launched by authorities in Jammu’s Bathindi area. He was detained by police alongside together with his supporters, however was later launched.
Shortly after being elected to Congress in November 2024, Malik spoke up for the detention of 30-year-old social activist Lemathura Paddha underneath Doda’s PSA. Malik alleged that Paddar was detained to boost hygiene points in Doda. Calling Prime Minister Omar Abdullah to make sure the instant launch of Paddha, Malik stated: “This younger man is being held underneath the PSA at the moment. Yesterday he was questioning the district-managed Doda about his failure.
Earlier this April, Malik made the headline when he was allegedly assaulted exterior the J&Okay Congress about his feedback he made in opposition to the previous Prime Minister and Individuals’s Democratic Celebration (PDP) Mufti Mohammad Seyed and the BJP.
After the Home of Representatives postponement, Malik had an argument with PDP staff over his remarks about Mentioned. After this, Malik took on the BJP for the previous decade, particularly close to locations of worship, underneath the foundations of the Centre, being stated to be “protecting silent” in regards to the elevated variety of liquor shops in J&Okay. Because the dialogue escalated, Malik fell on the desk and broke. Malik was then escorted to the home by clocks and ward employees.
Then in Might, Malik was booked by police after a feminine physician at Doda’s authorities hospital accused him of prison intimidation and gender abuse. In her complaints, medical doctors accused Malik of utilizing social media platforms to publicly concern threats and publicly publishing “abusive, gendered and disrespectful statements” in opposition to her. Malik was essential of the functioning of Doda’s hospitals and had raised this within the J&Okay meeting.
After repeatedly criticising the NC in June this 12 months, Malik withdrew his help for the Omar Abdullah authorities and stated he “did not serve the general public” who had been in workplace for the previous 9 months. Malik accused Abdullah and his authorities of allegedly failing to ship, noting that “actual public companies require dedication, not justification.”
The AAP chief has been spoken overtly on the ground of the Congress, from which he’s often filmed in each the J&Okay authorities and the BJP-led centre. In the course of the price range session earlier this 12 months, Malik was extraordinarily essential of the opposition BJP and PDP, accusing him of being “ramp-prolonged corruption” and being downgraded to former J&Okay state UT.
