Govt using PSA in ‘pleasure than principal mode’, remarks IIOJK court

 

The High Court of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir has quashed an illegal detention order under black law, Public Safety Act, against a father of six minor daughters from Baramulla.

A bench of Justice Rahul Bhart while ultimately quashing the detention order observed: “This is a writ petition for seeking quashment of preventive detention order which has resulted in subjecting the petitioner to suffer second time in succession loss of his personal liberty as a citizen to whom otherwise the right to life and personal liberty is guaranteed as a fundamental right under the Constitution.”

The quashed the order under PSA against the Baramulla resident, Manzoor Ahmad Lone.—KMS

 

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