MAJID AHMAD BHAT Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J&K

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Impugned in this Heabus Corpus petition with a prayer for quashment thereof is the detention order no. 36/DMP/PSA/20 dated 09.11.2020, purporting to have been passed by District Magistrate, Pulwama, whereunder detenu namely Majid Ahmad Bhat s/o Abdul Ahad Bhat R/o Karimabad Tehsil Pulwama is under detention.

(2.) The detenu, through his father, challenges the aforesaid detention order through the medium of aforesaid petition, inter alia, on the grounds that the order of detention suffers from non-application of mind;

(3.) Notice was issued to respondents. They appeared through their learned counsel and filed counter affidavit wherein they submitted that the detention order is well founded in fact and seeks dismissal of the Heabus Corpus petition.