In First Three Replies To HC, Jammu And Kashmir Drops PSA Charge After Challenge

In its first three responses to more than 250 writs of habeas corpus challenging preventive detentions under the stringent J&K Public Safety Act, the state Home department has informed the Srinagar wing of Jammu & Kashmir High Court that it has revoked the PSA slapped against the detainees.
Confirming the dropping of the PSA charge, J&K Senior Additional Advocate General B A Dar informed the single-judge bench of Justice Ali Mohammed Magrey that it has revoked the detention orders passed by the District Magistrates in the three cases. All the replies were filed by the senior AAG on September 30. And after the government response, in all the three cases, the court ruled the same day, disposing of the habeas corpus petitions filed by the relatives of the detainees as “settled”.