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| High Court quashes PSA detention of Kisthwar resident | | | | Srinagar, Sep 11: The High Court of Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh has quashed the preventive detention order issued against a Kishtwar locals who had been booked under the Public Safety Act (PSA) last year.
Justice MA Chowdhary, while allowing a habeas corpus petition, directed that the detenue, Muhammad Jaffer Sheikh, son of Ghulam Muhammad Sheikh of Nattas, a resident of Dool, Kishtwar, be released forthwith if not required in any other case. Sheikh had been placed under detention through Order No. 6th/DM/K/PSA of 2024 dated November 7, 2024, passed by the District Magistrate, Kishtwar.
During the hearing, Advocates SS Ahmed and Rahul Raina, appearing for the petitioner, argued that Sheikh was not informed of the period within which he could file a representation against the detention order. They contended that old FIRs from 1997, 2015, and 2019 had been cited as grounds for detention, which had no proximate link to the present necessity, and that neither the grounds of detention nor relevant material was properly supplied or explained to the detenue.
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