Advocates:
['M/S MIR SHAFKAT HUSSAIN AND ASSOCIATES', '', 'WAJID HASEEB', 'MIR SUHAIL']

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR

AT SRINAGAR

(Through Video Conferencing from Jammu)

WP(Crl) No. 597/2019

Reserved on: 24.09.2020

Pronounced on: 30.09.2020

Riyaz Ahmad Bhat …….Petitioner

Through: Mr. Wajid Haseeb, Advocate

Versus

State of J&K and another ……Respondent(s)

Through: Mr. Mir Suhail, GA

CORAM: HON’BLE MR JUSTICE TASHI RABSTAN, JUDGE

JUDGEMENT

1.

District Magistrate, Pulwama3 respondent no.2 here (for brevity

5detaining authority6), has, by Order no. 120/DMP/PSA/19 dated

16.10.2019, placed Riyaz Ahmad Bhat S/o Gh. Nabi Bhat R/o

Karimabad, Tehsil and District Pulwama (for short 5detenu6) under

preventive detention, with a view to prevent him from acting in any

manner prejudicial to the security of the State. It is this order, of which

petitioner is aggrieved and throws challenge thereto on the grounds

tailored in petition on hand.

2.

The case set up by the petitioner in instant petition is that detenu was

arrested in the first week of October, detained illegally for several