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Participation in nationalist activities does not give anyone a license to indulge in criminal activities, observed the Jammu and Kashmir High Court recently while upholding the preventive detention of a Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) official [Aqib Ahmad Renzu V/s UT of J&K].