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Srinagar, May 25, 2013 (PPI-OT): In occupied Kashmir, the High Court has quashed the detention order of a minor, who had been booked under draconian law, Public Safety Act, in March this year. A bench of Justice Virender Singh quashed detention order of Adil Ashraf Khan of Seer area of Sopore after his counsel, Mian Abdul Qayoom, argued before the court that the age of Khan had been mentioned wrongly in the detention order passed by the district magistrate Baramulla.
Mian Qayoom told the court that District Magistrate Baramulla on March 19, 2013, passed a detention order against Khan, when he had not even completed 18 years of his age. He said that the Board of Secondary Education certificate of 10th Class issued in favour of his client attested his date of birth as February 10, 1996, and it had not been refuted by the puppet administration.
The counsel for the puppet authorities, Shah Aamir, told the court that he had no documentary evidence available in the detention record to rebut the plea of the petitioner’s counsel.
Meanwhile, in a separate order, the court directed the authorities to consider the case of senior liberation leader, Mushtaq-ul-Islam, for his transfer from district jail Udhampur to some jail in Srinagar
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