Cornered by the global human rights watchdog report on detention under the PSA, state Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said: "The report will not be consigned to the dustbin but would be given due consideration and suggestions made in the report would be viewed seriously."

Separatists had found an endorsement of their views on detentions in Kashmir in the report and said that "it corroborated their stand" that the Muslim majority state had been turned into a police state.

The main pro-India opposition party, People's Democratic Party (PDP) created a ruckus in the in-session state assembly on the findings of the report saying it was "a black spot on the fair name of India’s democratic system."

Chief Minister Omar Abdullah commented on the report for the first time after it was released in Srinagar on Monday by the Amnesty International. “The report will not be thrown into the dustbin. We will study it thoroughly and consider the suggestions incorporated in the report pertaining to Public Safety Act and other issues,” he said. “The time has come when the PSA should be debated upon for its amendment or replacement by some other relatively better law."

Talking about the arrests during the last summer’s unrest, Omar said that 4,000 persons had been arrested of which only 171 are in custody.

“There are only 128 persons in custody under PSA at present,” he added.