JUDGMENT

1. Impugned herein is the detention Order No. 31/DMP/PSA/25 dated 07.05.2025 (for short ‘impugned order’) passed by respondent No.2-District Magistrate, Pulwama, 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 State’.

2. Through the medium of the present petition, the petitioner seeks quashment of the said detention order on the grounds that the detenue, in terms of the impugned order, has been detained under the Public Safety Act without following the constitutional and statutory procedural safeguards; that the grounds of detention are vague and mere assertions of the detaining authority, as such, no prudent man can make an effective and meaningful representation against these allegations; that the detenue has not been provided the material/documents relied upon by the detaining authority so as to make an effective representation before the detaining authority; that the representation filed by the detenue through his father has not been considered by the Government; that the Detaining aut