‘Tendency To Detain Critics Of Govt Abuse Of Preventive Detention Law’ : High Court Quashes Detention Of Kashmir Journalist ( Live Law )

While quashing the detention of Kashmir-based journalist Sajad Ahmad Dar, the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh criticised the tendency of authorities to detain persons for simply being the critics of the government, terming it as an abuse of the preventive detention law.Dar, who writes under the name Sajad Gul, has been under detention under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act…

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