Srinagar, May 9 -- "If mishandled by the wielder of said sword, then the effect stays on the side of the wielder whereas the relief passes on to the side of the person aimed to suffer its blow, and which precisely is the situation in hand before this Court in the context of the present case," a bench of Justice Rahul Bharti said while quashing the 71-year-old Bhat's PSA detention order under PSA passed by the Deputy Commissioner Srinagar on 16 July last year.

"The respondent No.2-District Magistrate, Srinagar, if had acted with due diligence at his end, would have come across with a fact from the records of his office that the petitioner (Bhat) was subjected to preventive detention in the year 2019 which came to be set aside by the inter...