JUDGMENT :

1. Heard learned counsel for the parties, perused the writ pleadings and the record therewith and also perused the detention record pertaining to the petitioner.

2. Through the medium of this writ petition, the petitioner is seeking a writ of habeas corpus with respect to his preventive detention custody which came to take place by virtue of an Order No. 12 of 2023 dated 25.07.2023 passed by the respondent No. 2-District Magistrate Jammu, acting under Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978, and resulted in detainment of the petitioner.

3. The petitioner came forward with the present writ petition instituted on 31.08.2023 terming his preventive detention as illegal and is, therefore, seeking it to be declared as such and consequently to earn restoration of his personal liberty.

4. A case for seeking preventive detention of the petitioner under Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978 was processed and put up by the respondent No. 3-Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Jammu when he, by a letter No. CRB/Dossier/2023/24/DPO dated 22.07.2023, submitted a dossier comprising of 164 leaves to the respondent No. 2-District Magistrate, Jammu thereby presenting the material