Government, on April 6, revoked Public Safety Act (PSA) against 20 persons who were detained in August last year (2019) with majority of them lodged in Central Jail Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), reports Daily Excelsior. Eighteen of them are lodged in different jails of J&K. Of them, 16 are lodged in Central Jail Srinagar and one each in Kot Bhalwal Jail Jammu and Special Jail Pulwama while two others are outside J&K. Last week, the High Court had directed the High-Powered Committee (HPC), convened to de-congest jails by releasing prisoners on parole in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak. However, the HPC had maintained that release of detainees under the PSA does not fall within the terms of guidelines issued by the Supreme Court to decongest jails.