Case Law Analysis
|Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court
Stale FIRs & Failure to Notify Representation Authority Invalidate PSA Detention | Preventive Detention : J&K HC
The J&K High Court quashed a PSA detention order, ruling that reliance on stale FIRs without a proximate link to current public order prejudice, and failure to inform the detenue of the specific representation authority, violates Article 22(5) safeguards. The decision reinforces that preventive detention requires fresh, live grounds, not mechanical reproduction of past cases.