HIGH COURT OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND LADAKH

AT SRINAGAR

HCP No.180/2025

Reserved on: 11.12.2025

Pronounced on: 16.12.2025 Uploaded on: 17.12.2025

Whether the operative part or full

judgment is pronounced-Full Judgment

Bahar Nabi Mir

…Petitioner(s)

Through: Mr. Sameer Qayoom, Advocate.

Vs.

Union Territory of J&K & Ors.

…Respondent(s)

Through: Mr. Hakim Aman Ali, Dy.AG.

CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE M. A. CHOWDHARY, JUDGE

JUDGMENT

1. The petitioner Bahar Nabi Mir S/O Ghulam Nabi Mir R/O

Ferozpora, Rafiabad, Watergam, Baramulla (for short ‘detenue’) through his father, has called in question the detention order No. 08/DMB/PSA/2025 dated 29.04.2025 ( for short ‘impugned order’) passed by the District Magistrate, Baramulla -Respondent No. 2 (for short ‘detaining authority’), whereby the detenue came to be detained under the provisions of the Jammu & Kashmir Public

Safety Act, 1978 (for short “the Act”).

2. Precisely the case of the petitioner is that he was arrested by the

police concerned on suspicion for few days and then was detained under the preventive custody in terms of the impugned order and

was shifted to District Jail, Udhampur. It is averred in the petition that the allegations made in the dossier ar