Alleged Role in Enforcing 2015 Kashmir Bandh Too Remote to Justify 2022 Preventive Detention: Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has quashed a preventive detention order passed against Umar Nazir Bhat under the Jammu And Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978. The court held that old allegations relating to hartal and bandh enforcement in Kashmir cannot be used years later to justify preventive detention when there is no recent material connecting the person with activities harmful to public order. The High Court observed…
