Jammu, April 28 -- Aam Aadmi Party legislator Mehraj Malik was released from Kathua jail on Tuesday after the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh quashed his detention under the Public Safety Act (PSA), terming it legally unsustainable.

Justice Mohd Yousuf Wani set aside the detention order issued by the Doda district magistrate on September 8 last year and directed authorities to "release the petitioner-detenu forthwith from his preventive detention."

"Malik was released by jail authorities this morning after completion of all formalities," his lawyer and AAP spokesperson Appu Singh Slathia said.

Following his release, Malik said he would continue to raise issues concerning the people. "I am now out of jail. I thank the judicia...