JAMMU, April 21 -- The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has quashed a preventive detention order issued under the J&K Public Safety Act, holding that the grounds of detention were vague, lacked specific particulars and reflected no genuine application of mind by the detaining authority.
Justice Wasim Sadiq Nargal passed the judgment in HCP 169/2024, Maqsad Ali Kohli vs UT of J&K & Ors, arising out of detention order No. 30/DMB/PSA/2024 dated April 19, 2024, issued by the District Magistrate, Baramulla, under Section 8 of the J&K Public Safety Act, 1978. The petition was filed through the detenue's brother, Mumtaz Ali Kohli.
The Court held that the allegations against the detenue were framed in broad and sweeping terms, without dis...