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J&K HC quashes Aasif Sultan’s PSA detention, says order ‘illegal’

Srinagar-based journalist Aasif Sultan has been granted relief by the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court, with his preventive detention order under the J&K Public Safety Act being quashed.

The high court said that Sultan’s arrest in another case appears to have influenced his preventive detention under the PSA, according to a report in Bar and Bench.

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