Srinagar, April 27 -- The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has quashed a preventive detention order under the Public Safety Act against a former spokesperson of the banned Jamaat-e-Islami, terming it illegal and unjustified.
The High Court also rapped the District Magistrate and Senior Superintendent of Police of Pulwama and ordered the J&K government to pay a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the petitioner.
In a case of advocate Ali Mohammad Lone, alias Advocate Zahid Ali, versus the Government of J&K, the single bench of Justice Rahul Bharti said, "This court cannot resist but to hold that the preventive detention of the petitioner is mala fide and illegal, ab origine and ab intra."
"The petitioner has been made to suffer loss of ...