The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh has dismissed a petition challenging the preventive detention of a Srinagar man under the Public Safety Act (PSA), holding that there was no ground to interfere with the detention order.
They alleged that Bilal Ahmad Lone had been involved in the 2017 lynching of a DSP officer deployed at Jamia Masjid during Shab-i-Qadr.
On the question of vagueness in the grounds of detention, the court noted that the order contained specific allegations concerning activities after his release from custody. It said credible inputs from sensitive sources indicated that a Pakistan-based TRF handler, identified as Ahmad Khalid, had contacted Lone through an encrypted messaging application and allegedly asked him to recruit a fresh module of young men for terrorist activities..
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