JUDGMENT :

ARGUMENTS ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONER

1. Through the medium of the present writ petition, the petitioner is seeking quashment of the impugned detention order bearing No. 03-PSA of 2022, dated 12.03.2022 passed by the respondent no. 2 (District Magistrate, Jammu), whereby the detenue, namely, Royal Singh @ Royal S/o Manjeet Singh R/o H.No. 354 Dalpatian Mohalla, Jammu has been placed in preventive detention under section 8(1)(a) of the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, and detained the petitioner in Central Jail Kot Bhalwal, Jammu.

2. It is contented by learned counsel for the petitioner that the impugned detention order has been passed mechanically and without application of mind. It is further been contended that the detention authority has passed the detention order on the basis of the criminal cases registered against the petitioner.

3. It is further pleaded by learned counsel appearing for the petitioner that the respondents have not supplied the grounds, copies of the FIRs, statement of witnesses or seizure memos, challan or any other material regarding the registration of the criminal cases against the petitioner.

4. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitio