Former IAS officer Shah Faesal was sent back to Kashmir from the Delhi airport and detained under the Public Safety Act (PSA).?
Faesal, who was bound for Istanbul, was detained at the airport on Wednesday morning, officials were quoted as saying by news agency PTI.?
The former bureaucrat from Jammu and Kashmir had floated a political outfit after resigning from the Indian Administrative Service (IAS).
After being detained at the Delhi airport, he was again detained under the PSA on his arrival in Srinagar, the officials said.
Post the removal of special status to Jammu and Kashmir, provided under Article 370, Faesal had said Kashmir is experiencing an "unprecedented" lockdown and its eight million population "incarcerated" like never before.
He is the president of the J&K Peoples Movement party.
Mr Faesal has been a vocal critic on social media about the government's move to end special status to Jammu and Kashmir and split it into two union territories.
On Tuesday, he warned on Twitter that Kashmir "needed a non-violent political mass movement" for restoration of political rights.
"Kashmir will need a long, sustained, non-violent political mass movement for restoration of the political rights. Abolition of Article 370 has finished the mainstream. Constitutionalists are gone. So you can either be a stooge or a separatist now. No shades of grey," the 35-year-old tweeted on Tuesday.
Faesal, however, is not the first politician from Jammu and Kashmir to be detained. Prominent politicians, including former chief ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti have been under house arrest while telecom and internet facilities remain suspended in the Kashmir valley.?