In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the High Court has quashed Kashmiri journalist Fahad Shah’s draconian Public Safety Act (PSA) and directed the authorities to release him forthwith.
The court said: “In the present case, the proce-dural requirement has not been followed and com-plied with by respondents in letter and spirit and as a corollary thereof, the petition is required to be allowed and the detention order is liable to be quashed.”
The court also said that no compelling reasons have been given or shown by the detaining authority while passing the detention order against Shah when he was already in custody and under an FIR in which no bail had been granted.—KMS
