JUDGMENT

1. Challenge in this petition has been thrown to a Detention Order No. DMB/PSA/11 of 2025 dated 29.04.2025 (‘impugned order’) passed by District Magistrate, Budgam-respondent No.2, vide which petitioner namely Nisar Ahmad Bhagat (‘the detenue’ for short) has been ordered to be detained and lodged in District Jail Jammu, under the provisions of The J&K Public Safety Act, 1978, in order to deter him from acting in any manner prejudicial to the ‘security of the State’.

1. The petitioner has invoked writ jurisdiction of this Court to question the impugned detention order, inter-alia, on the ground that the grounds of detention being vague, no prudent man can make an effective representation against his detention; that the representation dated 02.06.2025 filed by the detenue has not been accorded any consideration; that the procedural safeguards prescribed under J&K Public Safety Act, 1978 and under Article 21 and 22 of the Constitution of India have not been followed; that neither any reference pertaining to the detention of the detenue has been made to the Advisory Board within prescribed period of limitation under PSA nor the Board has made any report with respect to