JUDGMENT

1. Impugned in this petition is the Detention Order No. DMB/PSA/11 of 2024 dated 23.11.2024 (for short ‘impugned order’) passed by respondent no. 2-District Magistrate, Budgam in terms whereof petitioner came to be detained under Section- 8 of The J&K Public Safety Act, 1978 in order to prevent him from acting in a manner prejudicial to the ‘security of State’.

2. Through the medium of the present petition, petitioner assails his detention order, on the grounds that the detenue has been detained under the Public Safety Act on false and flimsy grounds without any justification; that the grounds of detention are vague and mere assertions of the detaining authority and no prudent man can make an effective and meaningful representation against these allegations. Further plea of the detenue is that he 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 he was not informed that he can make a representation before the District Magistrate, therefore, a valuable right of the detenue stands defeated; that the Detaining authority, while passing the impugned order, has relie