1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as Mr. Pawan Dev Singh, learned Dy. AG for the respondents. Perused the pleadings and the record therewith. Also perused the detention record produced by Mr. Pawan Dev Singh, learned Dy. AG.

2. By referring to his profile as a committed local journalist working as a Bureau Chief of Zee News Urdu and associated with causes of common man highlighting the problems of area in general and of victims of law enforcement agencies in particular, the petitioner has come forward being in a state of preventive detention custody, with the institution of the present writ petition on 27.03.2024 assailing exercise of preventive detention jurisdiction against him to be mala fide in all intent and purposes, being a brain child of the SHO Police Station Gursai, tehsil Mendhar, district Poonch and is, therefore, seeking exercise of writ jurisdiction of this Court under Art.226 of the Constitution of India for a writ of habeas corpus for the sake of restoration of his lost personal liberty which has remained deprived to him with effect from 10.03.2024 onwards.

3. Right to life and personal liberty enshrined under Art.21 of the Constitution of India ensu