SRINAGAR: J&K government on Friday evening revoked the detention orders under Public Safety Act involving 28 people, including a couple of People’s Conference functionaries, who have been languishing in different jails within and outside the Union Territory following the scrapping of special status of the erstwhile state on August 5 last year. With the revocation of these orders, the total number of people freed from detention under PSA since the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic has risen to 170.Home department sources disclosed that out of the 28 PSA detainees, 22 are lodged in UP jails and six in Kashmir prisons. “Prominent among those out of PSA detention in this batch are Muhammad Yasin Khan , who heads Kashmir Economic Alliance (KEA) and Kashmir Traders and Manufacturing Federation (KTMF), and two close associates of PC chairman Sajjad Gani Lone ,” a source said.More than 3,000 people were detained under various laws, including a few hundred under PSA, after August 5 last year when Parliament nullified Article 370 and ended the special status of J&K.