HIGH COURT OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND LADAKH

AT SRINAGAR

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HCP No. 151/2025

Reserved on: 09.12.2025

Pronounced on: 24.12.2025

Uploaded on: 26.12.2025

Whether operative part or : Full

full judgment is pronounced

Jaffer Ahmad Ahanger @ Haffarm aged 24 years S/o Ab Rahim Ahanger

R/o Magam Tehsil Handwara District Kupwara through his father.

……. Petitioner(s)

Through: Mr. I Sofi, Advocate

Versus

1. Union Territory of J&K through Commissioner/Principal Secretary,

Home Department , J&K Govt. Civil Secretariat, Srinagar/Jammu

2. District Magistrate, Kupwara

.…Respondent(s)

Through: Mr. Faheem Shah, GA

CORAM

HON’BLE MR JUSTICE VINOD CHATTERJI KOUL, JUDGE

JUDGEMENT

1. Through the medium of this petition, Order no.02/DMK/PSA of 2025 dated 29.04.2025, (impugned detention order) passed by District Magistrate, Kupwara – respondent no.2, (for short „detailing authority‟) whereby detenu, namely, Jaffer Ahmad Ahanger S/o Ab Rahim Ahanger R/o Magam, Tehsil Handwara, District Kupwara, has been placed under preventive detention with a view to prevent him from acting in any manner prejudicial to the security of the UT of Jammu and Kashmir, is sought to be quashed

and the detenu set at liberty on the grounds made mention of the