JAMMU, Oct. 5 -- The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has quashed Public Safety Act (PSA) detention orders against two Pulwama residents after finding that old criminal cases, without any proximate or fresh material, could not by themselves justify subsequent preventive detention.
A Division Bench comprising Justice Sanjeev Kumar and Justice Mohd Yousuf Wani passed the judgments in separate Letters Patent Appeals filed by Aabid Majeed Sheikh of Dadasara, Tral, and Sami Ullah Dar of Dogripora, Awantipora. Both judgments were pronounced on October 1.
In Sheikh's case, the appeal challenged a Single Bench judgment which had upheld his detention under Section 8 of the J&K Public Safety Act. The detention order had been passed by the D...