{"id":196620,"date":"2026-03-14T11:42:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=196620"},"modified":"2026-03-14T11:42:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:42:48","slug":"iiojk-high-court-quashes-psa-detention-orders-release-of-kashmiri-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/03\/14\/iiojk-high-court-quashes-psa-detention-orders-release-of-kashmiri-man.html","title":{"rendered":"IIOJK High Court quashes PSA detention, orders release of Kashmiri man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-195092\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/02\/high-court-of-jammu-and-kashmir-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/02\/high-court-of-jammu-and-kashmir-.png 1500w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/02\/high-court-of-jammu-and-kashmir--367x220.png 367w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/02\/high-court-of-jammu-and-kashmir--780x468.png 780w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/02\/high-court-of-jammu-and-kashmir--768x461.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Srinagar: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), the High Court has quashed the detention of a man held under the black law, the Public Safety Act (PSA), and ordered his immediate release.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, a single bench of the High Court headed by Justice Rahul Bharti declared the continued detention of Mudassar Ahmad Bhat, a resident of Pulwama district, illegal. The court termed the prolonged detention highly distressing and contrary to constitutional safeguards, and directed the authorities to release him immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Mudassar Ahmad Bhat had been taken into custody on May 1 last year under the Public Safety Act and was subsequently lodged in Udhampur District Jail in the Jammu region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), the High Court has quashed the detention of a man held under the black law, the Public Safety Act (PSA), and ordered his immediate release. According to Kashmir Media Service, a single bench of the High Court headed by Justice Rahul Bharti declared the continued detention &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":195092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-occupied-jammu-and-kashmir"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/02\/high-court-of-jammu-and-kashmir-.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196621,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196620\/revisions\/196621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}