HIGH COURT OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND LADAKH AT SRINAGAR HCP No.89/2025 CM No.2927/2025 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 Ishfaq Ahmad Sheikh S/O Gulzar Ahmad Sheikh R/O Chakoora Tehsil Litter, District Pulwama.

…Petitioner(s)

Through: Adv. S.R.Hussain.

Vs.

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

Home Department, Civil Sectt. Srinagar.

2. District Magistrate, Pulwama.

3. Superintendent, District Jail, Udhampur.

…Respondent(s)

Through: GA Furqan Yaqoob Sofi.

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

JUDGMENT

1. Vide detention Order No. 05/DMP/PSA/25 dated 30.04.2025 (for short ‘impugned order’) passed by respondent No.2-District Magistrate, Pulwama 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 the State’.

2. Through the medium of the present petition, petitioner is seeking quashment of the said detention order on the grounds that the detenue, in terms of the impugned order, has been deta