IIOJK High Court quashes PSA, imposes Rs 10,000 fine on District Magistrate Jammu
Jammu: Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) High Court has quashed the detention under PSA of Surjeet Singh alias Sonu and imposed Rs 10,000 cost on District Magistrate Jammu.
According to Kashmir Media Service, after hearing Advocate Satinder Gupta for the petitioner, Justice Atul Sreedharan observed, “All the cases with the exception of FIR No. 4/2021 are interpersonal in nature which does not even by a wrong shot involves the security of the State or public order”.
It is pertinent to mention that Indian Government and its installed Kashmir administration is time and again using the black law, the Public Safety Act against the people and now the IIOJK High Court lost the passion and it imposed Rs10,000 fine on District \magistrate Jammu.
“In Paragraph 3 of the grounds of detention, the District Magistrate, Jammu holds “it is pertinent to mention here that the crime committed by the subject is grave threat to the security of the State”, as to how the District Magistrate comes to this fanciful and puerile finding is a mystery. No justification for holding so has been given”, High Court said, adding “further, the twisted and the contorted reasoning of the District Magistrate, Jammu continues in Paragraph 7 which deserves to be reproduced in its entirety”.
The counsel for BJP Installed IIOJK administration, on the other hand, argued that the petitioner is a recidivist and has been involved in a life of crime for a long time. However, when asked by IIOJK High Court to demonstrate from the grounds of detention.
Under these circumstances, Justice Atul Sreedharan allowed the petition and ordered that the petitioner shall be set forth at liberty. Court also ordered that a cost of Rs 10,000 be imposed on the District Magistrate, Jammu personally which shall be paid to the petitioner within two weeks from the date of passing of this order, failing which, the petitioner shall be at liberty to file a petition of contempt against the District Magistrate, Jammu.
