HIGH COURT OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND LADAKH AT SRINAGAR HCP No.228/2024 CM No.7678/2024 Reserved on: 16.04.2026 Pronounced on: 22.04.2026 Uploaded on: 23.04.2026 Whether the operative part or full judgment is pronounced: Full Ahsan ul Haq Khanday S/O Nazir Ahmad Khanday through his wife Sabiya R/O Nowpora, Kalan, Tehsil Sopore, District Baramulla.

…Petitioner(s)

Through: Adv. Mohammad Wajid Haseeb.

Vs.

1. Union Territory of J&K through Principal Secretary to Govt.

Home Department, Civil Sectt. Srinagar.

2. District Magistrate, Baramulla.

3. Superintendent of Police, Sopore.

…Respondent(s)

Through: Dy.AG Hakeem Aman Ali.

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

JUDGMENT

1. Impugned herein is the detention Order No. 35/DMB/PSA/2024 dated

16.05.2024 (for short ‘impugned order’) passed by respondent No.2- District Magistrate, Baramulla, whereby the petitioner was ordered to be detained under preventive custody in terms of Section-8 of J&K Public Safety Act, 1978 (for short ‘the Act’) with a view to prevent him from acting in any manner prejudicial to the ‘security of UT of J&K’.

2. Through the medium of the present petition, the petitioner seeks quashment of the said detention order on the g