India, April 2 -- Jammu and Kashmir Assembly's privileges committee has summoned a PDP legislator in a breach of privilege matter, noting that the explanation furnished by him was inadequate and warranted further clarification.

PDP's Waheed ur Rehman Para, a first-time member of the Legislative Assembly, was served a show-cause notice by the office of the speaker in September last year for his social media post claiming the Assembly Secretariat endorsed the detention of AAP MLA Mehraj Malik under the Public Safety Act.

The nine-member privileges committee headed by Congress MLA Nizam-ud-din Bhat with members from National Conference and BJP tabled its report in the Assembly in the ongoing budget session.

"The Committee examined a referen...