{"id":200083,"date":"2026-05-09T11:02:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T06:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=200083"},"modified":"2026-05-09T11:02:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T06:02:05","slug":"iiojk-high-court-upholds-detention-of-kashmiri-youth-under-draconian-psa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/05\/09\/iiojk-high-court-upholds-detention-of-kashmiri-youth-under-draconian-psa.html","title":{"rendered":"IIOJK High Court upholds detention of Kashmiri youth under draconian PSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-200084\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/05\/High-Court-Srinagar.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/05\/High-Court-Srinagar.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/05\/High-Court-Srinagar-390x216.jpeg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Srinagar: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), the High Court has upheld the detention of an 18-year-old Kashmiri youth under the draconian Public Safety Act (PSA), a law widely criticized for enabling arbitrary arrests and indefinite detention without trial.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, Justice Rahul Bharti rejected the petition filed against the detention under the Public Safety Act.<\/p>\n<p>Court records show that after a dossier was submitted by the Senior Superintendent of Police, Pulwama, alleging the youth\u2019s involvement in \u201canti-national activities,\u201d the District Magistrate of Pulwama had ordered his detention on April 30, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The decision reflects a broader pattern in IIOJK, where even judicial institutions appear to act as instruments of India\u2019s repressive machinery, routinely endorsing detentions and punitive measures imposed under draconian laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), the High Court has upheld the detention of an 18-year-old Kashmiri youth under the draconian Public Safety Act (PSA), a law widely criticized for enabling arbitrary arrests and indefinite detention without trial. According to Kashmir Media Service, Justice Rahul Bharti rejected the petition filed against the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":200084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200083","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\/05\/High-Court-Srinagar.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200083","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=200083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200085,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200083\/revisions\/200085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}