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(M.K.HANJURA-J) 1/ One Mr. Bashir Ahmad Sheikh, has been detained by dint of order of detention bearing No. 60/DMB/ PSA/2017 dated 05th of July, 2017, passed by the respondent No.2 - District Magistrate, Baramulla, in exercise of powers vested in him under clause (a) of section (8) of the Jammu & Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978 (for short Act of 1978), and lodged in District Jail, Kathua. The grounds of detention, along with the allied documents, are said to have been served on the detenue. 

4/      Heard and considered.
5/    In order to find an answer to the question raised by the learned

counsel for the petitioner in his argument, buttressed with his pleadings that the detenue has been deprived of his right to make a representation against his order of detention to the respondent No.2, the order of detention, impugned herein, requires appraisal and it is reproduced below verbatim et literatim :

"Whereas Sr. Superintendent of police Baramulla vide his No. CS/PSA/2017/5287-90 dated 29-06-2017 has produced material record, such as dossier and other connected documents viz copy of FIR No. 47/2016, 49/2016, 51/2016, 58/2016, 199/2016, Arrest Memo, Statements u/s 161 Cr.PC. in respect of Bashir Ahmad Sheikh S/O Ghulam Nabi Sheiks R/O Druroo Tangmarg, District Baramulla ;
Whereas, I District Magistrate, Baramulla, have perused the contents and recommendations mentioned in the dossier carefully, produced before me in respect of the said person.
Whereas, I am satisfied that with a view to Bashir Ahmad Sheikh S/O Ghulam Nabi Sheikh R/O Druroo Tangmarg, District Baramulla from acting in any manner in the activities which are prejudicial to the maintenance of public order and warrant immediate measures to be taken against the subject to stop him from indulging in such activities which disturb the peace and public order ;

9/ In the backdrop of what has been said and done above, the petition is allowed, as a consequence of which, the order of detention bearing No. 60/DMB/ PSA/2017 dated 05th of July, 2017, passed by the respondent No.2 - District Magistrate, Baramulla, is quashed with a further direction to the respondents to release the person of Bashir Ahmad Sheikh S/O Ghulam Nabi Sheikh R/O Druroo Tangmarg, District Baramulla, forthwith from the preventive custody, in case he is not involved in any other offence. 10/ The petition is, accordingly, disposed of along with connected IAs. The record is returned to the learned counsel for the respondents in the open Court.