Srinagar: The district magistrate Anantnag on Monday slapped public safety act on a senior Tehreek e Hurriyat leader in the district. 

Sources said that Ashiq Hussain Narchoor, who was detained last month ahead of the ULB polls, was on Monday shifted to Hiranagar jail in Jammu after the PSA was slapped on him. 

Narchoor is a senior leader of M Ashraf Sehrai led TeH and served as Tehsil president in one of the Tehsils of Anantnag. 

Sources also said that son of slain resistance leader Qazi Nisar Ahmad, Qazi Yasir Ahmad has also been slapped with PSA and shifted to Hiranagar jail. 

Obscene videos and pictures of Yasir went viral last week in which he was seen masturbating in a live video chat.