Jammu Tawi: The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh recently upheld the preventive detention of a man under the J&K Public Safety Act in view of allegations that he had been uploading anti-national content on Facebook with the goal of promoting terrorism and radicalizing the youth.

Justice Sanjay Dhar dismissed a habeas corpus petition filed for the detained man’s release on December 5.

The Court rejected arguments that procedural safeguards were flouted while placing the petitioner, Waseem Ahmed Dar, under preventive detention.

The Court found that the detaining authorities had adequately supplied him with the grounds for his detention.

The material relied on by the authorities to justify his detention included screenshots of the petitioner’s Facebook pages, which the Court fou

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