Srinagar, May 01: The Jammu & Kashmir High Court on Friday granted three weeks' time to government to file its counter affidavit on a plea challenging detention of NC general secretary and former MLA Ali Muhammad Sagar under the Public Safety Act (PSA).
Appearing on behalf on government, Additional Advocate General, B. A. Dar sought three weeks' time to file counter affidavit. Justice Sindhu Sharma while granting the time to Additional Advocate General (AAG), BA Dar, directed him to bring the detention record by May 20.
“Detention record be kept available on the next date of hearing before the bench,” the court directed. The case is listed for hearing on May 20.
The senior NC leader is in preventive detention from August 5 last year when Article 370 was modified and and J&K state downgraded to UT status.
Besides narrating his health condition, the counsel also pointed out that as the COVID-19 pandemic is spreading and since the NC leader has pre-existing medical conditions, he is most susceptible to the infection of the virus.
