J&K HC Quashes Five Detention Orders, Finds Government Didn’t Explain Reason For Custody scroll.in

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has, since last month, quashed detention orders of at least five persons under the Public Safety Act because their fundamental rights were found to have been violated, The Indian Express reported on Thursday. The court found that the administration had not communicated to the detenues the grounds of their detention, as is required under Article 22(5) of the Constitution.

The verdicts came in habeas corpus petitions filed against the detentions, after which the persons were ordered to be released. The detentions took place in the weeks following August 5, when the Centre revoked the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. The state has since been bifurcated into two Union Territories.