The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court recently observed that a District Magistrate while passing the order of detention cannot describe the period of detention of the detenue, because it is the Government which after approving the detention provides the period till the detenue would be detained.A bench comprising Justice Wasim Sadiq Nargal observed,"Section 17 of J & K …
The Allahabad High Court recently upheld the detention order passed under the National Security Act against one Mohseen Saleem Sheikh, who has been accused of conspiring in the 'brutal murder' of the President of the Hindu Samaj Party, Kamlesh Tiwari. Even though the period of detention is already over, the Bench of Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Saroj Yadav found …
