Advocate Ali Mohammad Lone, the spokesman of the now-banned Jamaat-E-Islami outfit, was first arrested in 2019 under the PSA act but the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh quashed his preventive detention in July that year.
The outfit was first declared an 'Unlawful Association' on 28 February 2019. Home Minister Amit Shah says, "Anyone threatening the security of the nation will face ruthless measures".
Maulana Rehmatullah Mir Qasmi, who heads Darul Uloom Raheemiah, Kashmir’s largest Islamic seminary, was questioned for nearly six hours by the agency at its Srinagar office.
The Centre in 2019 banned Jamaat-e-Islami under the UAPA. But the court said that when the DM had passed the order, the tribunal appointed under section 4 of the UAPA hadn't yet confirmed JeI as 'unlawful'.