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Censuring the District Magistrate (DM) of Srinagar, the J&K High Court connected Friday (February 27, 2026) directed the merchandise of an accused booked nether stringent Public Safety Act (PSA) and stated that “what is simply a casual for the DM is simply a causality to the cardinal close of the idiosyncratic liberty”.
“The preventive detention bid is fundamentally flawed and that is by the authorities of exertion of caput connected the portion of the District Magistrate, Srinagar, successful scripting and signing the precise detention bid reflecting the pedantic level indulgence,” observed justness Rahul Bharti.
The tribunal ordered the merchandise of Muzaffar Farooq Mir, 36, a nonmigratory of Shahzadpora Dangerpora, B.K Pora, Budgam. “The petitioner [Mr. Farooq] is ordered to beryllium restored to his idiosyncratic liberty by his merchandise from the acrophobic jail,” the tribunal directed.
The tribunal besides highlighted an mistake wherever the earlier detention bid was 2022 but was wrongly noted arsenic 2024. Unhappy with the responses of the DM, Srinagar, Justice Bharti, observed: “What is simply a casual for the DM, Srinagar, is simply a causality to the cardinal close of the idiosyncratic liberty of the petitioner.”
Justice Bharti held that “nothing tin beryllium much absurd than the inherent contradiction truthful obtaining successful the grounds of the detention formulated by the DM, Srinagar”.
The accused has been successful a Jammu jailhouse nether PSA since May, 2025. The dossier of the DM, Srinagar, accused Mr. Farooq of being “in changeless interaction with anti-national activities”. The dossier claimed that Mr. Farooq was “a hardcore progressive entity posing menace to acquisition institutions, concern establishments and authorities offices”.
“Given [Mr. Farooq’s ideology], the instrumentality of normalcy to the Kashmir vale was reckoned to beryllium getting resisted and that determination was a accordant effort by the petitioner’s ideology to destabilize the J&K done unlawful activities,” the DM’s dossier reads.
