JAMMU, April 23 -- In a significant ruling on personal liberty, the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has quashed the preventive detention of Rajouri resident Mohd. Kabir under the PIT-NDPS Act, holding that liberty cannot be curtailed in a mechanical manner and that preventive detention cannot be invoked on vague and specious grounds.
Justice Rajesh Sekhri allowed the habeas corpus petition filed through the detenue's elder brother and set aside detention order No. PITNDPS 36 of 2025 dated June 16, 2025, passed by the Divisional Commissioner, Jammu. The petitioner was represented by Rahul Raina, Advocate, while the respondents were represented by Monika Kohli, Sr. AAG.
The Court noted that the detention was based on a dossier subm...