As per case facts, Petitioner Harish Kumar Alias Shally challenged a detention order passed by the District Magistrate, Kathua, which was based on a dossier from the SSP, Kathua, alleging ...
HIGH COURT OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND LADAKH
AT JAMMU
HCP No. 113/2025
Reserved on: 04.06.2026
Date of pronouncement:01.07.2026
Date of uploading: 01.07.2026
Whether the operative part or full
judgment is pronounced Full
Harish Kumar Alias Shally,
Aged 42 years
S/o Narinder Kumar
R/o Ward No. 6, Billawar
District Kathua
Through Brother
Rahul Sharma, Age 39 years
S/o Narinder Kumar
R/o Ward No. 6, Billawar
District Kathua.
….. Petitioner(s)/Appellant(s)
Through: Mr. Sachin Gupta, Advocate with
Ms. Radhika Gupta, Advocate.
q
vs
01. UT of Jammu and Kashmir through
Principal Secretary Home Department,
Civil Secretariat, Jammu.
02.District Magistrate, Kathua.
03.Senior Superintendent of Police,
Kathua.
04.Superintendent, District Jail,
Rajouri.
.…. Respondent(s)
Through: Mr. Suneel Malhotra, GA.
CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH SEKHRI, JUDGE
JUDGMENT
01. Challenge in this petition has been thrown to detention order dated
22.07.2025 passed by respondent No. 2-District Magistrate, Kathua,
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[“the detaining authority”] whereby petitioner came to be detained
and lodged in District Jail, Rajouri.
02. As factual matrix of the case would unfurl, SSP, Kathua [“the
recommending officer”] vide his communication dated 07.07.2025,
describing the petitioner a hardcore criminal and a history-sheeter of
district Kathua, submitted a dossier to the detaining authority,
whereby he furnished details of following crimes against him:
(i) FIR No. 48/2016 under Sections 307/34 RPC, 4/27 Arms Act
of P/S Billawar.
(ii) FIR No. 42/2017 under Sections 307/341/323/34 RPC, 3/25
Arms Act of P/S Hiranagar.
(iii) FIR No. 63/2017 under Sections 307/458/147/323 RPC, 4/25
Arms Act of P/S Nowabad.
(iv) FIR No. 71/2025 under Sections 307/115(2)/351(3)/352(2)
BNS of P/S Hiranagar.
(v) Preventive action under Section 39/128 BNSS of P/S Rajbagh
dated 15.06.2025.
03. According to the recommending officer, since petitioner was
continuously involved in organised criminal activities over an
extended period and has closed association with hardcore and
notorious criminals, his conduct was prejudicial to the maintenance of
public order.
04. On the basis of aforesaid dossier, the detaining authority has come to
conclude that since legal action against the petitioner under
substantive laws of the land has not proved fruitful in deterring him
from indulging in repeated criminal acts and despite a close
surveillance through history sheet, he has failed to mend his criminal
activities and has become a threat to the maintenance of the public
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order, it was imperative to detain him under the provisions of Public
Safety Act, 1978 [“PSA”, for short].
05. Petitioner is aggrieved of the impugned order inter alia on the ground
that his detention apart from being illegal and arbitrary in nature, is
legally flawed as the provisions enshrined in Article 22(5) of
Constitution of India have been flagrantly violated. It is contention of
the petitioner that grounds of detention, those were furnished to his
brother were written in English language, he is not well versed with.
06. It is urged by the petitioner that the sole basis for detaining him is
multiple FIRs registered against him, whereas he has been bailed out
in all the FIRs by the competent Courts and investigation in several
cases was under progress. In such a scenario, according to the
petitioner, his detention is an abuse of the process of law and amounts
to curtailment of his liberty, which is intrinsic to Article 21 of the
Constitution of India. The grounds of detention, according to the
petitioner, are vague, irrelevant and non-existent, based on extraneous
considerations.
07. Petitioner is aggrieved of the impugned order inter alia on the
following grounds:
(a) That the impugned order of detention has been passed in a
casual manner without application of mind. The grounds of
the impugned order does not even remotely suggest that the
activities as well as liberty of the petitioner is required to be
curtailed or restrained for maintenance of law and order. The
sole basis for the detention of the petitioner is that the
petitioner has been arrayed as an accused in false and
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frivolous FIR’s, however, the respondent No. 2 did not accord
due consideration to the fact that the FIR's have been lodged
only at the behest of certain vested interests and the
petitioner has been falsely implicated in the said FIR's.
Moreover, the petitioner has already been admitted to bail by
competent Court of law time and again, however, the
detaining authority has not taken the same into account. The
omission on the part of the detaining authority to give due
emphasis to the fact that the petitioner has been time and
again admitted to bail gives a clear presumption that the
detention order has been passed without application of mind
and on the basis of official records which are contrary to the
grounds of detention.
(b) That the involvement of the petitioner in various FIR's does
not in any manner establish a live link with the detention
order passed by respondent No. 2. It is submitted that the
FIR's wherein challan has been presented before competent
Court of law were lodged in the year, 2016, 20l7 and the
same does not have any nexus of proximity with the grounds
of detention. Moreover, the FIR registered in the year, 2025,
it is to be stated here that the petitioner was admitted to bail
and the investigation of the said case is still going on and
there is nothing material on record so as to conclusively
establish the alleged guilt of the petitioner. Therefore, the
detention authority has gravely erred in curtailing the liberty
of the petitioner which as per the Apex Court is not only
precious but cannot be infringed upon in a casual manner as done
in the instant case at hand. The activities of the
petitioner as relied upon by the respondent No. 2 does not in
any manner endanger the life and liberty of fellow citizens.
Moreover, the alleged activities of which the petitioner has
falsely been accused of does not in any manner create any
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nuisance or threat to law and order and it is not in any
manner disturb the public order at large, therefore, the
detention order is liable to be set aside outrightly.
(c) That the detention order is vitiated and also suffers from non-
application of mind as it does not specify the period of
detention of the petitioner. The grounds of detention only
states that the detention is for the maximum period which is
impermissible under the law governing the preventive
detention. The detaining authority cannot be permitted to fix
the period of detention at its own whims and fancies,
discretion as if to detain the detenue for some ulterior
motives. In the present case, the detention order reeks of
ulterior motives actuated with malafides at the behest of
political elements. The impugned order of detention as such
is contrary to the Public Safety Act and is liable to be
quashed.
(d) That the preventive order and the grounds of detention have
not been served upon the petitioner in the due course of time
and their was a substantial delay in providing the same to
the brother of the petitioner. The brother of the petitioner has
collected the present detention order and the grounds from
the concerned police station with great efforts. The non-
communication of the grounds of the detention order and
serving upon the detention order to the petitioner has
rendered the passing of the detention order and consequent
proceedings nullity, illegal and as such liable to be quashed. That
due to the inordinate delay on the part of the official
respondents in serving the impugned detention order, the
representation could not be made by the petitioner to
Government against the order of detention and the same
tantamount to violation of the fundamental rights of the
petitioner, nor the petitioner was made aware in the local
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language, Hindi/Dogri to make representation to the
Advisory Board. The copy of the impugned detention order is
enclosed herewith and marked as Annexure-I, which though,
has been addressed to the petitioner but the same has been
forwarded to the brother of the petitioner which clearly
substantiate the submission of the petitioner that neither the
detention order has been properly executed nor any
reasonable opportunity has been provided to the petitioner to
make the requisite representation in this behalf.
(e) That the impugned detention order has not been approved by
the Advisory Board under the Public Safety Act (PSA) as such
the detention is liable to be quashed.
(f) That the respondent no.2 in its order as exercised the powers
under Section 8 of the Act and directed the petitioner to be
detained in the District Jail, Rajouri and purport reason in
the detention order is that alleged activities in which the
petitioner is alleged to be involved are highly prejudicial to
maintenance to the public order. The petitioner is astonished
to see that respondent no.2 failed to appreciate that the FIRs
mentioned in the detention order do not fit within the ambit
of the section 8 of the Act. The public order as per the book
Supreme Court on words & Phrases by Justice R P Sethi is
asfollows:
... “Public order”.
Public order is synonymous with public safety and tranquillity
it is the absence of disorder involving which is of local
significance in contradistinction to national upheavals which
as revolution, civil strife, war, affecting the security of the
state. Public order is disturbed, must lad to public disorder.
They can be dealt with under the pouters to maintain law but
not public disorder. This order is no doubt prevented by the
maintenance of law and order also but disorder is a broad
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spectrum, which include at one end small disturba.nce and at
the other the most serious and cataclysmic happenings. Dr.
Ram Manohar Lohia V/s State of Bihar and Ors (1966) I SCR
709.
Public order" is what the French call order public and ls
something more than ordinary maintenance of law and order.
The test to be adopted is determining whether an act affects
law and order of public order, is: Does it lead to disturbance of
the public order or it does affect merely an individual living the
tranquillity of the society undistributed. Kanu Biswas V/s
State of W.B AIR 1972 Sc 1656.
" Public order: is the even tempo of the life of the community
taking the county as a whole or even a specified locality,
Disturbance of public order is to be distinguished from acts
directed against individuals, which do not disturb the society
to the extent of causing a general disturbance of public
tranquillity. It is the degree of disturbance and its affect upon
the life of the community in a locality, which determines
whether the disturbance amounts only to a breach of law and
order. The French distinguish law and order and public order
by designating the latter as order public. The latter expression
has been recognized as meaning something more than
ordinary maintenance of law and order. Justice Ramaswami
in writ petition no 179 of 1968 drew a line of demarcation
between the serious and aggravated forms of breaches of
public order, which affect the community or endanger the
public interest at large from minor breaches of peace, which
do not affect the public at the large. The analogy is useful but
not to pushed too far. A large number of acts directed against the
person or individuals may total up in to a breach of public
order. It is always a question to ask is: Does it lead to
disturbance of the current of life of the community so as to
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amount disturbance of the public order or does it affect merely
and individual leaving the tranquillity of the society
undisturbed? This question has to be faced in every case on
facts. There is no formula by which one case can be
distinguished from another. Arun Gosh V/s State of W. B.
(1970) 1 SCC 98.
(g) That in all the FIRs, petitioner is either bailed out or the
matters are still under investigation. It is really strange that
how the respondent no.2 has recorded satisfaction in the
present case, if at all the petitioner has violated various
provision of Panel Code and attracts the punishment under
the Ranbir Penal Code, Indian Penal Code or Bharatiya Nyaya
Sanhita only, taking recourse the preventive detention laws
would not be warranted and cannot be substituted for
ordinary law, hence the detention order being violative of
Article 2I and Article 19 and liable to be set-aside.
(h) That the respondent no.2 has relied upon the FIRs registered
in the year 2016, 2017. It is submitted that the cases
registered are at their fag end and in the case registered on
the basis of FIR 42/2017 under Sections 307 /341 /323 /34
RPC, 3/25 Arms Act, at Police Station Hiranagar, the charge
stands altered and the misleading fact was brought before
the respondent no.2 by respondent no.3 to arrive at a wrong
conclusion, similarly the respondent no.2 did not even bother
to find out the stage of trial and to have a report from the
Public Prosecutor about the pace of prosecution and also the
likelihood of conviction. It is further submitted that the
respondent no.2 did not even bother to examine the
statement of the witnesses deposed in the court to have an
overall view of the matter, the perusal of the detention order dated
22.07.2025 would reflect that the respondent no.2 has
acted in a mechanical manner and has only stamped the
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recommendation of the respondent no.3 without application
of mind and without seeking clarification of the above-said
position stated hereinabove.
(i) That the petitioner has not been supplied with the copies of
the FIRs, chargesheets till date despite the fact that the
impugned detaining order has been passed by the official
respondent no.2 in reference to those FIRs and chargesheets,
however, the respondent no.2 did not bother to serve the
copies of the said FIRs and Chargesheets on the petitioner.
(j) That it is further submitted that the petitioner was never
supplied with the documents relied by the detaining
authority nor has been the detention order read over to the
petitioner, the petitioner is only in possession of the
documents annexed with the petition and neither the copies
of the FIRs nor chargesheets have been provided to the
petitioner . The petitioner is not able to understand what has
become the basis for passing the present detention order
merely on the FIR numbers and no substantial material is
relied upon by the detaining authority, this is the case of
sheer non application of mind on the part of detaining
authority and due to non-compliance of the procedure on the
part of the official authorities, the petitioner could not make
representation before the official authorities in the due
course of time.
(k) That the petitioner till date has not been made understand
why he has been detained, moreover, it is relevant to note
that the service of the documents upon the brother of the
petitioner in English was no sufficient compliance with the
requirement contained in Article 22(5) as neither the brother
of the petitioner nor the detenue understands the grounds as the
same are in a language which neither the petitioner nor
his brother understands.
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(l) That it has been held in Surjeet Singh versus Union of
India that service of grounds in English was not sufficient
compliance with the requirement contained in Article 22(5).
Moreover, if the grounds are explained verbally to the
detenue and nothing in writing is left with him in a language
he understands, it has been heled that the purpose of Article
22(5) is not served. However, in the instant case, the official
respondents have not even bothered to explain the grounds
of detention to the detenue in the language he understands
and the due procedure stipulated in law has not been
complied with.
(m) That in Lallubhai Jogibhai Patel Versus Union of India,
the detenue did not know English but the grounds were
drawn in English and the detaining authority stated that the
Police Inspector, while serving the grounds of detention to the
detenu, fully explained the grounds in Gujarati, which he
could follow, but no translation of the grounds in Gujarati
was given to him, it was held that there is no sufficient
compliance of Article 22(5). The detenue in the instant case
has not been made to understand the detaining order as well
as the grounds of detention in the language the detenue
comprehends.
(n) That the impugned FIRs which have formed the basis for the
respondent no.2 to detain the petitioner were registered way
back in the year 2016, 2017 and the petitioner has been
bailed out by the competent court of law. It is relevant to note
that the petitioner has never absconded and has also never
violated the bail conditions. Moreover, the official authorities
have never sought for the cancellation of the bail of the
petitioner before the competent court of law and therefore, one
fails to understand as to what formed the basis for the
respondent no.2 to pass the impugned detaining order. Also,
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it is relevant to note that the alleged preventive action against
the petitioner cannot form the basis to detain the petitioner
and curtail the liberty of the petitioner, therefore, in the
present facts and circumstances of the case, the detaining
order suffers from serious recons of law and is liable to be
quashed.
(o) That Right to liberty as guaranteed under Article 21 of the
constitution is an intrinsic right. The said exception granted
to the concerned authorities to pass preventive detention but
while passing such orders, the authority concerned is
required of a person and such power shall be exercised in a
manner which may have the trappings of depriving a person
of the guaranteed liberty. In short an exceptional case has to
be made out for passing the preventive order but while doing
so procedural safeguards are to be respected. Breach in
observing the procedural safeguards gives right to the
detenue to claim that he has been prejudiced as his liberty
has been curtailed de hors the law. In the present case the
procedural safeguards have been flouted by the authority,
the petitioner was never supplied with the material relied by
the District Magistrate for invoking PSA against the
petitioner. Moreover, the detention order and grounds were
never read over and explained to the petitioner neither by the
District Magistrate nor by the Superintendent.
(p) That in the case in hand the respondent no.2 has recorded
the satisfaction for passing the detention order. The
question whether the pre-judicial activities of the petitioner
necessitating to pass the order of the detention is
approximate to the time when the detention order is made or
live link between the pre-judicial activities. In the present
case, there is an undue and long delay between the pre-judicial
activities and passing of order of detention. The bare
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scrutiny of order impugned reflects that the respondent No.
2 has not satisfactorily explained such delay nor any
explanation is given as to why such delay has occasioned. As
such the impugned order is liable to be set-aside.
08. The plea has been opposed on the other side by the respondents,
primarily on the ground that none of the legal, constitutional or
statutory right of the petitioner has been violated. According to the
respondents, detention of the petitioner was ordered after due
consideration of the dossier received from SSP, Kathua, whereby he
was continuously and repeatedly found involved in criminal activities
such as attempt to murder, illegal possession of weapons, etc. for the
past several years, which was prejudicial to the maintenance of public
order and tranquillity. It is contended that the material submitted by
the sponsoring authority showed a continuous pattern of conduct on
the part of the petitioner to threaten law and order.
09. It is contended by the respondents that the grounds of detention, the
detention order and all the relevant documents, comprising of total 85
leaves, were not only read over and explained to the detenue in the
language which he understood, but his signatures as a token of receipt
were also obtained from him. The petitioner and his father namely
Narinder Kumar were informed about his detention and the grounds
on which he came to be detained. The detention of the petitioner was
ordered after due consideration of the dossier received from SSP,
Kathua. All the norms were followed by the detaining authority while
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detaining him under PSA. It is contended that despite registration of
multiple FIRs against him, petitioner did not mend his ways and
rather continued in repeated anti-social activities those were highly
prejudicial to the maintenance of public order. Detention was carried
out in compliance with the provisions of PSA. He was informed about
his right to make representation to the Government against his
detention and the Home Department vide its communication dated
18.08.2025 has intimated the detaining authority that after
considering representation received on behalf of the detenue, same
was found without merits. The said decision was endorsed to
Superintendent District Jail, Rajouri, who vide his communication
dated 19.08.2025 has informed the detenue about disposal of his
representation. The Home Department vide Government order dated
25.07.2025 has approved the impugned detention order dated
22.07.2025 and thereafter confirmed the same vide order dated
18.08.2025, whereby petitioner was directed to be detained for a
period of three months in the first instance from the date of detention
i.e., 25.07.2025, which period came to be extended under law from
time to time.
10. Respondents have prayed for dismissal of the petition.
11. The petitioner after filing of counter affidavit by the respondents has
come forward with the rejoinder stating inter alia that he is suffering
from mental ailments and was diagnosed with depression. He was
admitted in hospital for a brief period and was receiving medical
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treatment prior to his detention on 22.07.2025. His medical condition
worsened during the period of his detention; he was provided
alternative medicines, which are having severe impact to his mental
health and Superintendent of concerned jail was even directed by this
Court vide order dated 19.01.2026, to ensure proper medical
treatment to him and submit a report. Apart from the health ground
urged by the petitioner, the rejoinder submitted by the petitioner is
nothing but a copy paste of the grounds urged in the memo of
petition.
12. Having heard rival contentions of the parties, I have given my
thoughtful consideration to the facts and circumstances obtaining the
case and the legal position attending the field.
13. A perusal of the record reveals that detention of the petitioner is
fundamentally flawed for the simple reason that detaining authority
hastened to pass the impugned order without waiting for the outcome
of the preventive measures initiated against him.
14. A perusal of the record reveals that preventive action came to be
initiated against the petitioner with respect to an incident of
15.06.2025 and impugned order of detention came to be passed
against him on 22.07.2025 i.e., within 38 days from the preventive
measure initiated in Police Station, Rajbagh.
15. Chapter-IX BNSS deals with security for keeping peace and for good
behaviour and an Executive Magistrate in terms of Section 129
BNSS, on receipt of information within his local jurisdiction, has
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been vested with the power to require habitual offenders, such as,
robbers, thieves or those involved in kidnapping, extortion, forgery or
protecting thieves or breaching public peace and those who habitually
commit or abet offences related to Drugs and Cosmetics Act,
Foreigners Act, Customs Act and laws relating to hoarding,
profiteering or corruption or the persons deemed so “desperate and
dangerous” that there being at large without security is hazardous to
the community, to show cause as to why he/they should not be
ordered to execute a bail bond for good behaviour up to 03 years.
Pertinently, if immediate measures pending inquiry are imperative,
Magistrate has also been vested with the jurisdiction to require an
individual to execute an interim bond under sub-Section 3 of Section
135.
16. The preventive measures within the criminal justice framework came
to be inserted by the legislature in its wisdom to prevent recurring
criminal conduct of the offenders with an avowed object to protect
public order by requiring the repeat offenders to show-cause as to
why they be not asked to execute a bond for good behaviour. The
preventive detention, on the other hand under PSA is a separate
administrative measure and the fact that an individual is facing
security proceedings under BNSS does not legally prevent the
executive from invoking provisions of PSA. In other words, both the
measures can co-exist.
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17. Nobody can take an exception to the settled proposition of law that
security of the state and maintenance of public order is absolute
domain of the administration and subjective satisfaction of the
detaining authority to detain a person under PSA is not subject to
objective assessment of the writ Court. However, when a person is
facing preventive measures and has been required to execute a bond
for good behaviour under BNSS, the detaining authorities under PSA
are obliged to independently apply mind and demonstrate as to why
security proceedings were not sufficient to deter the offender from
engaging in the activities prejudicial to the public order because
conduct of the authority, exercising such a vast jurisdiction is required
to be in consonance with the concept of justice and fairness and in
tune with the concept of fundamental right of life and liberty captured
in Article 21 of the Constitution of India.
18. Hon’ble Supreme Court in Ameena Begum vs. The State of
Telangana and Ors; 2023(4) Crimes 292 observed that any order of
a detaining authority evincing that it runs beyond his powers, as are
actually conferred, would not amount to a valid order made under the
preventive detention laws. It was held that when constitutional courts
are called upon to test the legality of detention orders they must
examine the following 10 points:
(i) “the order is based on the requisite satisfaction, albeit
subjective, of the detaining authority, for, the absence of
such satisfaction as to the existence of a matter of fact or
law, upon which validity of the exercise of the power is
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predicated, would be the sine qua non for the exercise of the
power not being satisfied;
(ii) in reaching such requisite satisfaction, the detaining
authority has applied its mind to all relevant circumstances
and the same is not based on material extraneous to the
scope and purpose of the statute;
(iii) power has been exercised for achieving the purpose for
which it has been conferred, or exercised for an improper
purpose, not authorized by the statute, and is therefore
ultra vires;
(iv) the detaining authority has acted independently or under
the dictation of another body;
(v) the detaining authority, by reason of self-created rules of
policy or in any other manner not authorized by the
governing statute, has disabled itself from applying its mind
to the facts of each individual case;
(vi) the satisfaction of the detaining authority rests on materials
which are of rationally probative value, and the detaining
authority has given due regard to the matters as per the
statutory mandate;
(vii) the satisfaction has been arrived at bearing in mind
existence of a live and proximate link between the past
conduct of a person and the imperative need to detain him
or is based on material which is stale;
(viii) the ground(s) for reaching the requisite satisfaction is/are
such which an individual, with some degree of rationality
and prudence, would consider as connected with the fact
and relevant to the subject-matter of the inquiry in respect
whereof the satisfaction is to be reached;
(ix) the grounds on which the order of preventive detention
rests are not vague but are precise, pertinent and relevant
which, with sufficient clarity, inform the detenu the
satisfaction for the detention, giving him the opportunity to
make a suitable representation; and
(x) the timelines, as provided under the law, have been strictly
adhered to.”
19. If present case is approached with the aforesaid principle of law, what
manifests is that impugned order is not only mechanical in nature but
contains arbitrary reasoning and ignores material facts on the record.
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Neither detaining authority has demonstrated any “compelling
reason” to invoke PSA against the petitioner nor reflected an
independent application of mind as to why security proceedings
initiated under BNSS were proved insufficient to prevent him from
engaging in activities prejudicial to the maintenance of public peace,
tranquillity and public order. The grounds of detention after a passing
reference to the security proceedings against the petitioner is
ominously silent about further details as to whether petitioner at any
point of time was served upon a notice by the Executive Magistrate to
show cause why he should not be ordered to execute a bail bond for
his good behaviour not exceeding 03 years. There is also nothing in
the record to suggest that petitioner was required by the Magistrate to
execute an interim bond as an immediate measure under sub-Section
3 of Section 135 BNSS and if he executed any such bond whether he
violated the conditions thereof. It needs a specific mention that
detention of an individual follows non-compliance of the final bond
executed under Section 136 BNSS and ordinarily it happens only
after a final order is passed following a complete inquiry. Preventive
detention under PSA cannot be invoked unless there is emergency
based justification which ordinary law of the land cannot address.
20. For the foregoing reasons, since impugned order is found
fundamentally flawed and does not sustain on this ground alone, rest
of the grounds urged in the memo of petition are not required to be
evaluated. Hence, present petition is allowed and impugned order is
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set aside. Respondents are directed to immediately release the
petitioner from detention provided he is not required in any other
case.
21. Disposed of.
(Rajesh Sekhri)
Judge
Jammu
01.07.2026
Sushant
Whether the judgment is speaking? Yes/No
Whether the judgment is reportable? Yes/No
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