Srinagar- The High Court of J&K and Ladakh has dismissed a petition, challenging detention order under Public Safety Act against a 26-year-old youth, one of the accused in a grenade blast at Hari Singh High Street here in which two civilians were killed and 37 people including some security personnel injured on 6 March 2022.
The youth—Mohammad Bariq Magray (26), a resident of Khanyar Srinagar, has filed a petition through his friend against the PSA detention order (DMS/PSA/95/22) dated 30 August 2022.
Magray had claimed that he is a peace loving and law-abiding citizen of India and has never indulged in any activity which could be termed as “prejudicial to the security of the State”. He submitted that on 6 March 2022 some unknown persons hurled a hand grenade at Hari Singh High Street Srinagar, which claimed the life of two civilians and left thirty-seven other persons injured. Subsequently police had filed a case (FIR No. 18/2022) under Sections 307, 302 IPC, 7/27 Indian Arms Act and 16, 23 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in the Police Station Shaheed Gunj Srinagar.
On the basis of suspicion, Magray said that he was picked up and arrested in the FIR. He said that the competent Court of TADA/POTA at Srinagar granted him bail on 26th September last year.
On the other hand, the authorities stated that the order of detention was “necessitated due to constant involvement of the petitioner (Magrey) in the subversive activities calculated to undermine the security of the State.”
The authorities said all safeguards laid down in Article 22(5) of the Constitution of India and Section 13 of the J&K Public Safety Act, 1978, were adhered to while taking Magrey under preventive detention.
“Having heard the learned counsel for the parties and perused the material on record, I am of the considered opinion that the detention of the petitioner (Magrey) ordered by the Detaining Authority in terms impugned Order, is completely in consonance with law,” a bench of Justice Sanjeev Kumar said, “The activities the petitioner (Magrey) has been indulging in, have the definite potential of undermining the Security of the State.” Subsequently the court dismissed the plea.
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