The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh recently ruled that an unsatisfactory and unexplained delay in executing a preventive detention order renders it unsustainable in law [Owais Syed Khan V/S UT of J&K & Ors.].
The tendency to detain "negative critics" of the government amounts to an abuse of the law, observed the Jammu and Kashmir High Court while quashing the detention of journalist Sajad Ahmad Dar, also known as Sajad Gul
The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh ruled that a failure by the detaining authority to supply the detenue with the material forming the basis for detention would render a preventive detention order illegal.