Srinagar, April 27 -- Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday termed the detention of AAP MLA Mehraj Malik a "gross misuse of law."

He praised the High Court verdict after it quashed the Public Safety Act (PSA) case against him, saying that AAP MLA should never have been detained in the first place.

"He should NEVER have been detained under PSA; in fact, he should never have been detained at all. His detention was a gross misuse of this law & totally unjustified. I hope the people responsible for this detention learn a valuable lesson from the decision of the High Court & reflect on the way these laws are being abused in J&K," he wrote.

Advocate Zulkarnain Chowdhary elaborated on the case. He said that the case was ini...