High Court Quashes PSA Detention Of Pulwama Youth
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir High Court has quashed detention order under the Public Safety Act against a resident of Pulwama and directed authorities to release him from preventive custody forthwith.
“On the touchstone of the settled position of law and perusal of record, the (detainee) was not supplied the materials relied upon by the detaining authority. (He) was provided material in the shape of grounds of detention with no other material/documents, as referred to in the order of detention,” a bench of Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey said, adding, “On these counts alone, in view of the settled position of law, the detention of the (detainee) is vitiated, the (detainee) having been prevented from making an effective and purposeful representation against the order of detention by not providing the sufficient material,”