IN THE HIGH COURT OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND LADAKH AT SRINAGAR Reserved on: 06.11.2025 Pronounced on: 14.11.2025 Uploaded on: 14.11.2025 Whether the operative part or full judgment is pronounced: Full HCP No.323/2024 ABDUL BASIT PAUL ...PETITIONER/APPELLANT(S)

Through: -Mr. B. A. Tak, Advocate Vs.

UT OF J&K & ORS …RESPONDENT(S)

Through: -Mr. Bikramdeep Singh, Dy. AG.

CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY DHAR, JUDGE.

JUDGMENT

1) The petitioner, through the medium of present petition, has challenged detention order bearing No.191/DMS/ PSA/2024 dated 12.09.2024, passed by District Magistrate, Shopian-respondent No.2, whereby Abdul Basit Paul (“the detenue”), has been placed under preventive detention with a view to prevent him from acting in any manner prejudicial to the security of the UT/Country.

2) The petitioner has contended that the impugned order of detention is illegal, unconstitutional and bad in the eyes of law, inasmuch as the detaining authority has not followed the constitutional and statutory procedural safeguards as provided under Article 22(5) of the Constitution of India. It has been contended that no specific allegations have been attributed to the petitioner in the grounds of d