HIGH COURT OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR- SRINAGAR Case No: LPA 73/2017 Dated : 23rd of AUG. 2017 TAHIR HUSSAIN MIR VERSUS STATE AND ORS ORDER SHEET CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE [ENTITY]- JUDGE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE [ENTITY]- JUDGE i. Whether to be approved for reporting in NET : Yes. ii. Whether to be approved for reporting in Digest/Journal : Yes FOR THE APPELLANT/s : MR. [ENTITY] FOR THE RESPONDENT/s: . MR. [ENTITY], Dy.AG
(PER [ENTITY]-J) 01/ By the medium of this LPA, the appellant has assailed the order dated 05th of May, 2017 of the writ Court, passed in [CASE NUMBER] on the premise that the writ Court, while dismissing the writ petition, has observed that the perusal of the record would reveal that the grounds of detention were explained to the detenue in the language he understood. However, the fact remains that the grounds of detention were not explained to the detenue, rendering the order of detention liable to be set aside.
02/ The appellant has proceeded to state that the detenue has not been provided the material which formed the basis of passing of the detention order. Therefore, the detenue has been deprived of his right to file an effective representation against his order of detention. The learned writ Court has not considered these grounds and has proceeded to pass the impugned judgement in an illegal and improper manner.
03/ It is also pleaded by the appellant that the respondents, in their reply affidavit, have stated that the detention warrant was executed on 27-11-2016 by one ASI [ENTITY] of police station [ENTITY], who read over and explained the contents of the same to the detenue. Assuming the contention to be correct, the said ASI ought to have filed the affidavit to substantiate so, which has not been done in the case on hand. The said ASI has not filed any affidavit in this regard. The learned Single Judge has not taken this important aspect of the matter into account, therefore, the appeal deserves to be allowed and the impugned judgement/order dated 05th of May, 2017, passed by the learned writ Court, be set aside. 04/ Before adverting to the merits of the appeal, it will be profitable to quote the relevant excerpts of the order of the writ Court that have a bearing on the questions/issues raised in the writ petition. These are as under :
"Before adverting to the above provision, it be mentioned here that once an authority mentioned in [SECTION] of the Act exercises the power conferred on it thereunder and fulfills the procedural safeguards of furnishing grounds of detention and the relevant relied upon material to the detenue, such authority has limited role vis-a-vis the detention of the concerned, as the purpose of conferment of the power under [SECTION] stands accomplished. This becomes clear from [SECTION] of the Act as well. Thereafter all other safeguards enshrined in [SECTION] of the [ACT] and requirements prescribed by the relevant law have to be fulfilled by the Government.
The perusal of the record would further reveal that the grounds of detention have been explained to the detenue in the language he understands and the copy has been handed over to him along with the records and the detenue has been informed about his right of making representation against his detention. This would mean that the requirement of [SECTION] of the Act has been fulfilled.
The next contention of the learned counsel for the petitioner that the impugned order is an outcome of non application of mind is also belied by the records produced by the learned State counsel. The records would show as to how the detenue has been uncontrollable despite having been framed in as many as seven different F.I.Rs allegedly for committing various offences including the unlawful activities. The detailed grounds of detention and the records referred to the detaining authority were sufficient to derive satisfaction as regards the detention of detenue under the provisions of the Act. Thus the order does not appear to be suffering from non application of mind.
As per the settled position of law if a detention order is issued on more than one ground independent of each other, the detention order will survive even if one of the grounds is found to be unfound or legally unsustainable. In the present case the detention order is issued on more than one ground independent of each other, therefore, the detention order does not get vitiated even if one of the grounds taken in support of the petition is turned affirmative. My this view is fortified by a law laid down by the Supreme Court in case titled [PRECEDENT] p.1.
The next ground taken by the detenue that the detaining authority did not record as to under which compelling reasons the detenue is required to be kept in custody under preventive laws when he was already in jail and was not granted bail.
Since the Court has already held that the detention survives even if one of the grounds taken in support of the petition remains unexplained or proves to bad in law, therefore, the detention order can be maintained in absence of any explanation on this count by the respondents."
05/ Heard and considered. 06/ Learned counsel for the appellant has argued it firstly that the
judgement delivered by the writ court is liable to be set aside on the ground that since the detenue was already in custody and had not applied for bail in any of the cases registered against him, therefore, there was no possibility of him getting released on bail and indulge in the activities which are said to be prejudicial to the security of the State.
07/ The second line of the argument of the learned counsel for the appellant is that the detenue has not been provided the material that formed the baseline of the detention order , as a consequence of which he has been prevented from making an effective representation against the order of detention as postulated and provided under law. He has also stated that the detenue is an artless man, who is conversant with kashmiri and urdu languages only and it is not stated anywhere that the grounds of detention were communicated to him in the languages that he understood.
08/ Thirdly, it has been contended that in the grounds of detention, the detenue has been informed that you have a right of making a representation against your detention, if you so choose. In the communication bearing No. DMB/PSA/2016/627-29 dated 25-11-2016, the detenue has been told that you may make a representation to the Government against the said detention. In the execution report it has been stated that the detenue has been informed that you can make a representation to the Government against the detention order, if you so desire. It has been argued that the detenue has been deprived of his right to make a representation before the detaining authority against the order of detention passed by him, that is the respondent No.2 in the petition. 09/ To the contrary the learned counsel for the respondents has argued that the order of detention has been passed after taking into consideration the relevant provisions of [ACT]. 1978 ([ACT]). The grounds of detention have been conveyed to the detenue in the language with which he is conversant and these have been read over and explained to him at the place of his detention, i.e. Central Jail, Kot Bhalwal. Therefore, the order of the writ Court does not suffer from any vice. It has been passed with due diligence. It will sustain in the eyes of the law and that it is neither perverse nor bad.
10/ Looking at the instant case from the perspective of what has been stated in the first line of argument, there is no denial of the fact that the detenue was in police custody at the moment when the order of detention was passed. It is also not in dispute that the detenue had not applied for bail in any of the following F.I.Rs that were registered against him at police station [ENTITY], as also in [CASE NUMBER], registered u/[SECTION], [SECTION], [SECTION] [ACT] :
"FIR NO. 84/2016 u/[SECTION], [SECTION] [CASE NUMBER], u/[SECTION], [SECTION] [CASE NUMBER], u/[SECTION] [ACT] FIR NO. 113/2016, u/[SECTION] RPC, 13 [ACT] FIR NO. 119/2016, u/[SECTION] RPC. FIR NO. 132/2016, u/[SECTION], u/[SECTION] [ACT].
FIR NO. 135/2016, u/[SECTION]."
11/ Since the detenue was in the custody of the police at the time of passing of the order of detention, therefore, the question that arises for consideration is could an order of detention be passed on the face of such an eventuality ? The answer to this question is an emphatic "No" taking into consideration the law laid down by the apex Court of the country in paragraph (24) of the judgement delivered in the case of [PRECEDENT], which fits to a "Tee" to the facts of the instant case and it reads as under :
"24. There is another reason why the detention order is unjustified. It was passed when the accused was in jail in Crime No. 2[SECTION] of 2016. His custody in jail for the said offence was converted into custody under the impugned detention order. The incident involved in this offence is sometime in the year 2002-03. The detenue could not have been detained preventively by taking this stale incident into account, more so when he was in jail. In [PRECEDENT], this Court observed as follows :
"6. On a reading of the grounds, particularly the paragraph which we have extracted above, it is clear that the order of detention was passed as the detaining authority was apprehensive that in case the detenue was released on bail he would again carry on his criminal activities in the area. If the apprehension of the detaining authority was true, the bail application had to be opposed and in case bail was granted, challenge against that order in the higher forum had to be raised. Merely on the ground that an accused in detention as an under trial prisoner was likely to get bail an order of detention under the [ACT] should not ordinarily be passed."
12/ The same view has been repeated and reiterated by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in paragraph (13) of the judgement pronounced in the case of [PRECEDENT], which applies to the instant case on all the fours and reads as under :
"13. The order of preventive detention passed against the detenue states that his illegal activities were causing danger to poor and small farmers and their safety and financial well being. Recourse to normal legal procedure would be time consuming and would not be an effective deterrent to prevent the detenu from indulging in further prejudicial activities in the business of spurious seeds, affecting maintenance of public order, and that there was no other option except to invoke the provisions of the [ACT] as an extreme measure to insulate the society from his evil deeds. The rhetorical incantation of the words "goonda" or "prejudicial to maintenance of public order"
cannot be sufficient justification to invoke the draconian powers of preventive detention. To classify the detenue as a "goonda" affecting public order, because of inadequate yield from the chilli seed sold by him and prevent him from moving for bail even is a gross abuse of the statutory power of Preventive Detention. The grounds of detention are ex facie extraneous to the Act."
13/ Testing the instant case on the touch stone of the law laid down above, the detenue could not have been detained after taking recourse to the provisions of the [ACT], when he was already in the custody of the police authorities. His custody in police for the offences stated above, has been converted into the custody under the impugned detention order. May be the detaining authority might have been laboring under the belief that if the detenue applies for bail, he may succeed in seeking his release but this apprehension of the detaining authority could have been guarded against by resisting and opposing the bail application. In the event of his release on bail, the State could have exercised its right to knock the doors of the higher forum. This single infraction knocks the bottom out of the contention raised by the State that the detenue can be detained preventatively when he is already in custody and has not applied for bail. It cuts at the very root of the State action. The State could have taken recourse to the ordinary law of the land.
14/ Life and liberty of the citizens of the State are of paramount importance. A duty is cast on the shoulders of the Court to enquire that the decision of the Executive is made upon the matters laid down by the Statute and that these are relevant for arriving at such a decision. The personal liberty of a citizen, guaranteed to him/her by the [ACT] and of which, he/she cannot be deprived except in due course of law and for the purposes sanctioned by law. 15/ The second contention of the learned counsel for the appellant is that the material that formed the bedrock of the detention of the detenue has not been provided to him which has prevented him to file an effective representation against the order of detention.
16/ In sub paragraphs (e & f) of paragraph (1) of the reply affidavit, the detaining authority has pleaded that the detention warrant was executed on 27-11-2016 by ASI Ghulam Mohamad Police Station, Banidpora. The contents of detention warrant and grounds of detention were read over to the detenue in urdu/kashmiri languages and were also explained to him in kashmiri language which he understands. It is also pleaded that the material (relevant documents) including detention order & grounds of detention were served on the detenue through Assistant Superintendent of police, Central Jail Kot Bhalwal, Jammu, along with the above documents and the copies of the FIRs were also provided to the detenue in order to enable him to make an effective representation to the Government. It is also pleaded that the detenue was informed of his right to make a representation to the Government against the detention order. 17/ The District Magistrate, [ENTITY], authorized the detention of the detenue. The execution report, made in compliance of the order of detention, which is relevant in the context of the pleadings detailed at sub paragraphs (e & f) of paragraph (1) of the reply affidavit, is reproduced herein below verbatim et literatim :
"Execution Report In compliance to District Magistrate [ENTITY] order No. 54/DMB/PSA/2016 dated 25-11-2016, issued under endorsement DMB/PSA/2016/6[SECTION]-26 dated 25-11-2016, I , ASI, [ENTITY] No. 841645/EXK of p/s [ENTITY], took the custody of [ENTITY] S/O :Lt. [ENTITY] R/O Ward No.2, Dachigam Tehsil and District [ENTITY] from P/S [ENTITY] on 26-11-2016 for execution of PSA warrant. The PSA detention warrant has been executed at Central Jail Kot Bhalwal today on 27-11-2016. The contents of detention warrant and grounds of detention have been read over to the said detenue in english and explained in urdu/kashmiri languages which he understood fully, in lieu of which his signature has been obtained below at mark (A).
The detenue along with relevant documents i.e. copies of detention warrant and the grounds of detention have been handed over to the jail authorities of Central Jail, Jammu, Kot Bhalwal, on 27-11-2016 against proper receipt for further lodgement. The detenue has also been informed that he can make representation to the Government against his detention order, if he so desires.
Sd/ at "A"
[ENTITY] S/O :Lt. [ENTITY] R/O Ward No.2, Dachigam Tehsil and District [ENTITY] Handed over by :
Sd/ ASI [ENTITY] No. EXK/841645 p/s [ENTITY].
Executing Officer. Taken over by : Sd/ sd/ ASI [ENTITY]. Superintendent No. EXK/841645 Central Jail, Kot Bhalwal, P/S [ENTITY]. Jammu." 18/ From a glimpse of the execution report supra, what gets
revealed is that the detention warrant has been executed on 27-11-2016 at Central Jail, Kot Bhalwal, Jammu. It also states that the contents of detention warrant and grounds of detention were read over to the detenue in English language and were also explained to him in urdu/kashmiri languages, which languages he understood fully and in token thereof, his signature was attained at Mark (A). The execution report provides that the detenue was handed over to the jail authorities of Central Jail, Kot Bhalwal, on 27-11-2016 against proper receipt for further lodgement, along with the relevant documents, i.e. copies of detention warrant and grounds of detention. 19/ From the perusal of the Execution Report what can be said, in unequivocal terms, is that the detenue, along with the documents in the shape of the copy of detention order and the copy of the grounds of detention and not the copies of the F.I.Rs, was handed over to the jail authorities of the Central Jail, Kot Bhalwal, against proper receipt and these were read over and explained to him. Therefore, it can, irresistibly, be concluded that the copies of the 'First Information Reports (FIRs)' bearing NOs. 84/2016, 87/2016, 91/2016. 113/2016, 119/2016, 132/2016, 133/2016, 135/2016 & 139/2016 and the record of the investigation, made in them, was not made available to the detenue, which is an infraction of law as it has hampered him from making an effective representation as provided under law. 20/ Looking at the said ground from yet another angle, what can be said is that to eradicate all the doubts, it was incumbent on the part of the person, who did the exercise of handing over the documents and conveying the contents thereof to the detenue, to file an affidavit in this regard. Resort can, in this behalf, be had to the law laid down by the apex Court of the country in the case of [PRECEDENT], wherein it has been held as under :
"1/ Though several questions have been raised in this petition, it is not necessary to deal with them in detail as we find that there is no definite material to show that the requirements of [SECTION] of the [ACT], (in short the Act), requiring the grounds of order of detention to be disclosed/communicated to the person affected by the order has been complied with. Though in the affidavit filed by the State, it has been stated that the contents of the warrants and grounds of detention were served, read over and explained to the assesse and he was informed about his right to make a representation against the detention, if he so desired, there is no material placed on record to substantiate this stand. It is stated in the affidavit that the detenue refused to receive copy of the detention order and also refused to put his signatures on the documents. The least the State could have done is to file an affidavit of the person who wanted to serve the relevant documents and an endorsement to the effect that there was refusal. Even the name of the official has not been indicated in the affidavit. That would have been sufficient to comply with the requirements of [SECTION] of the Act."
[SECTION]/ The third limb of the argument of the learned counsel for the appellant is that in the grounds of detention the detenue has been informed that you have a right to make a representation against your detention and vide communication bearing No. DMB/PSA/2016/6[SECTION]-26 dated 25-11-2016, the detenue has been told that you can make a representation to the Government against the said detention and that in the execution report also, the detenue has been informed that you can make a representation to the Government against the detention order, if you so choose. However, the detenue has not been informed that you have a right to make a representation before the detaining authority. This, according to the learned counsel for the petitioner, renders the detention order invalid under law. To substantiate his argument, the learned counsel for the petitioner has placed explicit reliance on the law laid down by the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir vide order dated 09 th June, 2017 passed in the case of [PRECEDENT], the relevant excerpts of which are reproduced below :
"6. The submission of the learned counsel for the appellant is that prior to Government's approval of the Detention order, which is to be done within 12 days of the detention order, in terms of [SECTION] of the [ACT], the detaining authority also has the power to revoke the detention order. This power is clearly relatable to [SECTION] of the [ACT], which has been saved by virtue of [SECTION] of the [ACT]. It was further submitted that till the Government's approval of the Detention order is granted, since the Detaining Authority had the power to revoke the detention order, a representation could have been made to the Detaining Authority for revoking the detention order. Therefore, according to the learned counsel for the appellant, it was incumbent upon the Detaining Authority to have informed the detenu that he could also make a representation to him (the Detaining Authority), if he so desired. It was further contended that since the Detaining Authority did not communicate to the detenu that such a representation could be made to the Detaining Authority, this in itself amounted to infraction of the provisions of [SECTION] of the [ACT] read with [SECTION] of the [ACT]. In support of his submission, he placed reliance on a Supreme Court decision in the case of [PRECEDENT], wherein pari meteria provisions of the [ACT], were considered by the Supreme Court. In that case also the Supreme Court came to the conclusion that non-communication of the fact that the detenu could make a representation to the Detaining Authority would constitute an infraction of a valid constitutional right guaranteed to the detenu under [SECTION] of the [ACT] and such failure would make the order of detention invalid.
7. On the strength of this decision of the Supreme Court, the learned counsel for the appellant submitted that the detention order in the present case also became invalid because of the non-communication of the fact that the detenu could make a representation to the Detaining Authority till the Government had approved the detention order.
8. The learned counsel for the respondents however submitted that all the technical requirements had been complied with and, particularly of [SECTION], which required that the earliest opportunity of making a representation be provided to the detenu. He submitted that the communication dated 22.12.2016, issued by the District Magistrate, Baramulla, made it abundantly clear to the detenu that he could make a representation to the Home Department of the Government, if he so desired. Consequently, it was submitted that what was required to be done under [SECTION] of the [ACT] and [ACT] under [SECTION] thereof, had been done and, therefore, the detention order cannot be regarded as having become invalid. He further submitted that in any event, the detenu had not even availed the right of making the representation to the Government even after the approval of the Government was granted on 28.12.2016. Therefore, according to the learned counsel for the respondents, the detention order cannot be held to be invalid on the ground urged by the learned counsel for the appellant.
9. [SECTION] of the [ACT], and, in particular, sub Section (2) thereof, provides that a detention order can be passed by inter alia a District Magistrate. [SECTION] of the said Act stipulates that when any order is made under the said Section by a person mentioned in sub-section (2), he shall forthwith report the fact to the Government together with the grounds on which the order has been made and such of the particulars as in his opinion have a bearing on the matter, and no such order shall remain in force for more than twelve days after the making thereof unless in the meantime it has been approved by the Government. This clearly implies that though the District Magistrate can make a detention order, such detention order requires to be approved by the Government not later than 12 days from the date of the order. [SECTION] of the [ACT], reads as under:- "19. Revocation of detention orders.-
(1) Without prejudice to the provisions of [SECTION] of the [ACT], a detention order may, at any time, be revoked or modified by the Government, notwithstanding that the order has been made by any officer mentioned in sub- [SECTION].
(2) There shall be no bar to making of a fresh order of detention against a person on the same facts as an arlier order of detention made against such person in any case where -
(i) the earlier order of detention or its continuance is not legal on account of any technical defect or
(ii) the earlier order of detention has been revoked by reason of any apprehension, or for avoiding any challenge that such order or its continuance is not legal on account of any technical defect Provided that in computing the maximum period for which a person against whom such fresh order of detention has been issued may be detained, the period during which such person was under the earlier order of detention shall be excluded."
10. Sub-Section (1) clearly indicates that without prejudice to the provisions of [SECTION] of the [ACT], a detention order may, at any time be revoked or modified by the Government notwithstanding that the order has been made by the Officer mentioned in [SECTION] of the Act. What [SECTION] provides is that, apart from the Detaining Authority, the Government is also entitled to revoke or modify the detention order made by the Detaining Authority, who happens to be inter alia a District Magistrate. It also implies that till the approval is granted by the Government under [SECTION], the Detaining Authority retains jurisdiction to revoke the detention order in terms of [SECTION] of the [ACT]. The said [SECTION] reads as under:-
" [SECTION]. Power to make, to include power to add to, amend, vary or rescind, orders, rules or bye-laws.
Where, by an Act or Regulation, a power to issue notifications, orders, rules or bye-laws is conferred, then that power includes a power, exercisable in the like manner and subject to the like sanction and conditions (if any), to add to, amend, vary or rescind any notifications, orders, rules or bye-laws so issued."
11. It is further evident that till the Government grants approval to the detention order in terms of [SECTION] of the [ACT], the Detaining Authority has the power to add to, amend, vary or rescind inter alia any order issued by him which includes a detention order.
12. On examining the Supreme Court decision in the case of [PRECEDENT] (supra), we find that that the relevant provisions of the [ACT] are in pari materia to the provisions of the [ACT]. For example, [SECTION] of the [ACT] is almost identical to [SECTION] of the [ACT], [SECTION] of the [ACT] corresponds to [SECTION] of the [ACT] and, similarly [SECTION] and [SECTION] of the [ACT]s correspond to [SECTION] and [SECTION] of the [ACT].
13. The Supreme Court in the said decision was considering the case which had arisen from a Full Bench decision of the Bombay High Court. The question before the Full Bench of Bombay High Court had been one which had been referred for its decision and that was whether in case of an order of detention by an officer under [SECTION] of the said [ACT], non-communication to the detenu that he has a right of making a representation to the detaining authority constituted an infraction of a valuable right of the detenu under [SECTION] of the [ACT] and, as such, vitiated the order of detention? This question was answered in the affirmative, meaning that unless and until the detenu was communicated that he has a right to make a representation to the Detaining Authority, there would be an infraction of the [ACT]al right under [SECTION] of the [ACT] and the detention order would be vitiated.
14. The Supreme Court, after considering the [ACT]al Bench decision in [PRECEDENT], came to the conclusion that until the detention order is approved by the State Government, the Detaining Authority can entertain the representation from the detenu in exercise of powers of the [ACT] and annul revoke or modify the order, as is provided under [SECTION] of the [ACT]. The Supreme Court held that, this being the position, non-communication of the fact to the detenu that he could make a representation to the Detaining Authority so long as the order of detention has not been approved by the State Government in a case where the order of detention is issued by an officer other than the State Government under [SECTION] of the [ACT] would constitute an infraction of a valuable right of the detenu under [SECTION] of the [ACT] and that the ratio of the [ACT] Bench decision in case of [PRECEDENT]'s case (supra) would apply notwithstanding the fact that in [PRECEDENT]'s case (supra) the Court was dealing with an order of detention issued under the provisions of [ACT]. Ultimately the Supreme Court held as under:-
"This being the position, it goes without saying that even under the [ACT] a detenu will have a right to make a representation to the detaining authority so long as the order of detention has not been approved by the State Government and consequently non-communication of the fact to the detenu that he has a right to make representation to the detaining authority would constitute an infraction of the valuable constitutional right guaranteed to the detenu under [SECTION] of the [ACT] and such failure would make the order of detention invalid. We, therefore, see no infirmity with the impugned judgment of the Full Bench of the Bombay High Court to be interfered with by this Court. These appeals accordingly fail and stand dismissed."
15. From a reading of the said decision, it is abundantly clear that non-communication of the fact that the detenu can make a representation to the Detaining Authority, till the detention order is not approved by the Government, would constitute an infraction of a valuable [ACT]al right guaranteed under [SECTION] of the [ACT] as also of the right under [SECTION] of the [ACT]. Failure of such non-communication would invalidate the order of detention.
16. The plea of the learned counsel for the respondents, that the detenu could make a representation to the State Government and that such an opportunity had been provided, would be of no consequence for the simple reason that the Government's approval of the detention order came later i.e., on 28.12.2016 whereas, the detention order was executed upon the detenu on 24.12.2016 and between that date and 28.12.2016 he had a right to make a representation to the Detaining Authority i.e., the District Magistrate, Baramulla, to revoke the detention order. That opportunity not having been given, vitiated the detention order. In other words, the detention order stood vitiated and invalidated on 22.12.2016 itself.
17. In view of the foregoing, we need not to consider any of the other pleas sought to be raised by the learned counsel for the appellant, inasmuch as the detention order has been invalidated because of non-communication of the fact that the detenu could make a representation to the Detaining Authority. The detention order having become invalid, the detenu is liable to be released forthwith insofar as his detention order is concerned.
18. The appeal is allowed. The impugned order is set aside."
22/ The judgement cited above has a pellucid simplicity and applying its ratio to the facts of the instant case, what can be said is that it is an open and shut case of the deprivation of an inalienable right of the detenue, inasmuch as, he has not been informed that he can make a representation to the Detaining Authority. This permitted no option as it is a right guaranteed under [SECTION] of the [ACT] and [SECTION] of the Act of 1978. It is incapable of being taken away and the failure, in providing this information to the detenue, has the effect of invalidating the order of detention.
23/ Viewed in the context of all that has been said and done above, the impugned judgement dated 05th of May, 2017, of the learned Single Judge, passed in [CASE NUMBER], is set aside, as a consequence of which, the impugned order of detention bearing No. 54/DMB/PSA of 2016 dated 25th of November, 2016, is quashed with further direction to the respondents to release the person of Shri [ENTITY] S/O Late Habib-u-Lah Mir R/O Ward No. 02, Dachigam, [ENTITY], Tehsil & District [ENTITY], Kashmir, from the preventive custody forthwith.
24/ The record, produced by Mr. [ENTITY], learned Dy.AG, is returned to him in the open Court.
[ENTITY].
23-08-2017 ([ENTITY]) ([ENTITY]) JUDGE JUDGE