LAWS(J&K)-2019-12-101

SHAKEEL AHMAD YATOO Vs. STATE

Decided On December 16, 2019
Shakeel Ahmad Yatoo Appellant
V/S
STATE Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Impugned in this Heabus Corpus petition with a prayer for quashment thereof is the detention order no. DMS/PSA/16 of 2018 dated 06.11.2018, purporting to have been passed by District Magistrate Budgam, whereunder detenu namely Shakeel Ahmad Yatoo s/o Mohammad Rajab Yatoo R/o Hayatpora, Tehsil chaoora District Budgam, is under detention.

(2.) It is submitted that the detenu is never involved in any illegal activity. The allegations leveled against the detenu in the grounds of detention are vehemently denied to be correct, as the same are baseless. Therefore, the detention order deserves to be quashed.

(3.) Learned counsel for the petitioner-detenu has chosen to press the only ground for seeking quashment of the detention order though having taken many which has reference to the Detaining Authority not mentioning in the order that the detenu can make a representation to the Detaining Authority which as per the learned counsel constitute an infraction of valuable constitutional right guaranteed under Article 22(5) of the Constitution of India as also of the right under section 13 of the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978.