HIGH COURT OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND LADAKH

AT SRINAGAR

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Reserved on: 25.11.2025

Pronounced on: 17.12.2025

Uploaded on 17.12.2025

Whether the operative part or full

judgment is pronounced :Full

Mohammad Shafi Dar

…..…..Petitioner(s)

Through: Mr. Wajid Mohammad Haseeb, Adv.

V/s

UT of J&K and others

………Respondent(s)

Through: Ms. Rahila Khan, Assisting Counsel

CORAM:

HON’BLE MR JUSTICE VINOD CHATTERJI KOUL, JUDGE

JUDGEMENT

1. In the instant writ petition, exercise of powers under and in terms of Article 226 of the Constitution of India is sought for so as to quash Detention Order no.DIVCOM-“K”/106/2025 dated 12.06.2025 passed by Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir – respondent no.2 (detaining authority), whereby detenu, namely, Mohammad Shafi Dar S/o Lt. Gh. Mohd Dar R/o Tulkhan Bijbehara District Anantnag, has been placed under preventive detention with a view to prevent him from committing any of the acts within the meaning of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1988 (for short the “Act”) and directing his lodgment in Central Jail,

Kathua.

2. The case set up by the petitioner, in this petition, is that the detenu was arrested by police in the year 2024 without any reason and