Srinagar, Aug 29, Aug. 30 -- The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has quashed the preventive detention of an Anantnag resident under the Public Safety Act (PSA), describing the proceedings as a "sham exercise" and a "gross abuse of preventive detention jurisdiction".A Bench of Justice Rahul Bharti, while disposing of a habeas corpus petition, directed the immediate release of Mehraj-Ud-Din Khanday from District Jail, Udhampur, holding that the detention was vitiated from its inception by an apparent predetermination of the outcome.Khanday had challenged detention order No. 22/DMA/PSA/DET/2025, issued by the District Magistrate, Anantnag, on May 15, 2025. The order had placed him under preventive detention on the ground that his ac...