JUDGEMENT

13.03.2024 1. Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the writ pleadings, reply cum counter affidavit and the documents therewith. The detention record produced from the respondents‟ end was also perused.

2. This is a petition under article 226 Constitution of India seeking quashment of the petitioner‟s preventive detention effected under the J&K Public Safety Act, 1978.

3. Before this court gears up to deal with the facts and fate of this writ petition, this court needs to serve a commemoration to itself. Whenever this court, as constitutional court on its plenary jurisdiction front under article 226 of the Constitution of India, is called upon to examine any given case of preventive detention of a person in search of his deprived personal liberty expecting and trusting it to be restored to him/her, as the case may be, then every such case registers and implies a call of self-vigilance for this court to cogitate in its judicial mind and memory the historicity of the judicial sensitivity and guidance which has got invested and accumulated in the long course of time by the efforts and energy of the Hon‟ble Supreme Co