HIGH COURT OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND LADAKH AT SRINAGAR HCP No.155/2025 Reserved on: 23.04.2026 Pronounced on: 29.04.2026 Uploaded on: 30.04.2026 Whether the operative part or full judgment is pronounced: Full Sheeraz Ahmad Sheikh S/O Ali Mohammad Sheikh Through his brother Gowher Ahmad Sheikh R/O Batamurran, Wanpora, District Shopian.

…Petitioner(s)

Through: Adv. Wajid Mohammad Haseeb.

Vs.

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

Home Department, Civil Sectt. Srinagar.

2. District Magistrate, Shopian.

3. Sr. Superintendent of Police, Shopian.

…Respondent(s)

Through: Dy.AG Bikramdeep Singh.

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

JUDGMENT

1. Challenge in this petition has been thrown to a Detention Order No.

08/DMS/PSA of 2025 dated 01.05.2025 passed by respondent no. 2- District Magistrate, Shopian vide which petitioner came to be detained under Section 8(1)(a) of The J&K Public Safety Act, 1978 in view of his alleged activities prejudicial to the ‘security of U.T of J&K’ and lodged in District Jail Udhampur.

2. Background facts of the case are that the Senior Superintendent of Police, Shopian-respondent No.3, describing the petitioner as a desperate character, hab