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The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh recently stayed a judgment which had directed the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) to pay ₹2 lakh as compensation to a man for illegally detaining him under the J&K Public Safety Act [Union Territory of J&K Vs Aftab Hussain Dar].