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SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir precocious tribunal upheld connected Thursday the detention of a pistillate nether the Public Safety Act. The pistillate is accused by authorities of being an “overground idiosyncratic (OGW) who had adjacent interaction with Musaib Lakhvi, the nephew of Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi”, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks mastermind and LeT co-founder.Appellant Shaista Maqbool was detained connected April 4, 2023 nether Section 8 of the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act based connected a dossier prepared by the SSP of Bandipora, northbound Kashmir. She filed a writ petition challenging the detention order, which the HC dismissed connected May 23, 2025.In her entreaty earlier a part seat comprising Chief Justice Arun Palli and Justice Rajnesh Oswal, Maqbool argued that the grounds of detention did not specify immoderate dates, months, oregon years of the alleged amerciable activities.
She contended that the detention bid was based connected vague allegations and, therefore, could not warrant her detention nether the PSA. However, the seat ruled that erstwhile the detaining authorization has satisfied itself based connected the worldly earlier it, the sufficiency of that worldly to warrant detention nether preventive detention instrumentality lies beyond the scope of judicial review.The tribunal observed that authorities had specifically identified the individuals with whom the appellant was allegedly successful contact.
Therefore, it could not beryllium said that the detention was based connected vague oregon ambiguous grounds. “As such, this contention of the appellant is recovered to beryllium misconceived,” the seat said.“It needs to beryllium noted that amerciable activities attributed to the appellant, arsenic mentioned successful the grounds of detention, are not committed successful the nationalist regard but discreetly and furtively, and it is not imaginable to get factual grounds to found the same,” the seat said.
