NEW DELHI: As many as 7,357 persons in Jammu & Kashmir — including stone-pelters, miscreants, over ground workers and separatists — were cumulatively taken into preventive custody since abrogation of Article 370 in the erstwhile state on August 5, 2019, the Union home ministry told the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.Of these, 451 persons are still under preventive detention, including 396 under the Jammu & Kashmir Public Safety Act (PSA), it added.In reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, minister of state for home G Kishan Reddy said J&K government had justified the detentions saying they were done to prevent commission of offences involving breach of peace and tranquility or activities prejudicial to the security of the State and for the maintenance of public order.The aforesaid detentions, he stated, were effected under Section 107 of the Criminal Procedure Code and the PSA.Meanwhile, in reply to a different question in the Rajya Sabha, Reddy said that no sedition case had been filed against any person in Union Territory J&K for using social media platforms since its formation on October 31, 2019.He added that directions for regulation of telecom services were being issued by the competent authority in the Government of J&K in accordance with the provisions of the Indian Telegraph Act , 1885, the Rules made thereunder as also the principles laid down in the Supreme Court judgment dated January 10, 2020, in case of Anuradha Bhasin Vs Union of India & Ors. and Ghulam Nabi Azad Vs Union of India and Anr, which emphasised on the principle of proportionality, nature of urgency, goal intended to be achieved, assessing the existence of any alternate mechanism, necessity of the measure intending at imposing restrictions, the measure being least restrictive, exploring all available alternatives, etc.