Preventive detention order executed after unexplained delay is unsustainable in law: Jammu & Kashmir High Court
The Court made the observation while setting aside a preventive detention order that was issued on April 8, 2022, but executed only on March 14, 2023, after an unexplained delay of eleven months.
The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh recently ruled that an unsatisfactory and unexplained delay in executing a preventive detention order renders it unsustainable in law [Owais Syed Khan V/S UT of J&K & Ors.].