Civil servant-turned-politician Shah Faesal was on Mondaymoved the Delhi High Court challenging his detention at the Delhi airport,nearly a week ago. On August 14, Shah was detained by the police in thenational capital just before he was set to fly abroad and later being sent backto Kashmir. The court has sought the response of the Centre and fixed thematter for hearing on Friday.

The former IAS officer, who had first grabbed headlines bytopping the UPSC examination, has been critical of Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)-led NDA government’s move to abrogate Article 370 and bifurcate Jammu andKashmir into two Union Territories. Taking to Twitter, Faesal had said thatthere were two choices before the Kashmiris – to be a stooge or to be aseparatist.

“Kashmir will need a long, sustained, non-violent politicalmass movement for restoration of the political rights. Abolition of Article 370has finished the mainstream. Constitutionalists are gone. So you can either bea stooge or a separatist now. No shades of grey,” his tweet read. Shah Faesalhad in March 2019 launched his own political party – J&K People’s Movement.