MOHAMMAD MAQBOOL DAMNOO Vs. STATE OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This is a petition under Article 32 of the Constitution challenging the detention of the petitioner under the Jammu and Kashmir Preventive Detention Act, 1964 (J. and K. Act XIII of 1964) hereinafter referred to as the Act.

(2.) On June 24, 1970, the District Magistrate of Baramula passed the impugned detention order in the following terms:

(3.) On the same date, the District Magistrate passed an order under Section 8. read with Section 13-A of the Act directing that the petitioner be informed that it was against the public interest to disclose to him the grounds on which his detention was based. On July 11, 1970, the Government having considered the order of detention, the report of the District Magistrate, the grounds on which the order had been made, and other particulars bearing on the matter approved the said detention order.