SRINAGAR : The Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh High Court quashed the Public Safety Act detention of a 27-year-old Pulwama resident, observing that the order was based on “stale allegations” and reflected “non-application of mind” by the detaining authority. Follow Us On G -N e w s | Whatsapp

Justice Moksha Khajuria Kazmi, while allowing the habeas corpus petition filed by Sajad Ahmad Bhat alias Baaber, a resident of Drabgam, Rajpora in Pulwama, held that the District Magistrate had issued the detention order nearly five years after the registration of an FIR against him, a delay that “snaps the proximate link between alleged conduct and preventive action.”

“The detention order issued in 2025 on the basis of a 2020 FIR is an outcome of stale grounds,” the court said, add

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