Preventive Detention of Advocate Mohammad Ashraf Bhat Quashed: Jammu & Kashmir High Court
The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh has quashed the preventive detention of Mohammad Ashraf Bhat, a 71-year-old advocate and former General Secretary of the Kashmir High Court Bar Association, under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978. In its May 5, 2025 ruling, Justice Rahul Bharti declared the detention "seriously faulty and flawed," ordering Bhat’s immediate release from Kathua Jail, where he had been confined since…
