HIGH COURT OF JAMMU &KASHMIR AND LADAKH

AT SRINAGAR

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Reserved on: 25.12.2025

Pronounced on: 20.12.2025

Uploaded on: 22.12.2025

Whether operative part or : Full

full judgment is pronounced

Shakir Ahmad Itoo

……...Petitioner(s)

Through: Mr. N. A. Ronga, Adv.

Versus

Union Territory of J&K and others

……...…Respondent(s)

Through: Mr. Mohsin S. Qadiri, Sr. AAG with

Ms. Maha Majeed, Assisting Counsel

CORAM

HON’BLE MR JUSTICE VINOD CHATTERJI KOUL, JUDGE

JUDGEMENT

1. Through the medium of this writ petition, the petitioner prays for quashment of detention Order No.5/DMK/PSA/2024 dated 27.03.2024, passed by District Magistrate, Kulgam, whereby detenu, namely, Shakir Ahmad Itoo S/o Ghulam Mohidin Itoo R/o Gratabal , Tehsil Qaimoh District Kulgam , has been placed under preventive detention with a view to prevent him from acting in a manner prejudicial to the security of the State, and directing his lodgement in Central Jail, Srinagar on the following

grounds:

i) that the allegations made in the grounds of detention are vague

and non-existent and detaining authority has not followed constitutional and statutory procedural safeguards as provided

under Article 22 (5) of the Constitution of India;

ii) that the detenu h