Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Apr 3: High Court today quashed detention orders of 14 persons who were held under Public Safety Act (PSA) for creating law and order problems and ordered the authorities to release them.
Court while quashing 14 orders of detention referred the Article 14 of the constitution under which personal liberty of citizen is protected.
“Personal liberty protected under Article 21 of the Constitution of India is so sacrosanct and so high in the scale of constitutional values that it is the obligation of the detaining authority to show that the impugned detention meticulously accords with the procedure established by law,” reads one of the orders of the court.
Court while quashing the detention orders said, the authority while passing such orders are required to be alive to the personal liberty of a person and added that such power (passing of detention) has to be exercised in a manner, which may not have the trappings of depriving a person of the guaranteed liberty.
The detainees were represented before the court by different lawyers including Nasir Qadri, B A Tak, M S Hussain, Sakim Amin, Mir Majid Bashir, Mohammad Bhat and Z A Wani.
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