The Centre on Wednesday agreed to release Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association President Mian Abdul Qayoom from detention, The Lea...
The Centre on Wednesday agreed to release Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association President Mian Abdul Qayoom from detention, The Leaflet reported. Qayoom will walk out of Tihar Jail in the national Capital on Thursday.
A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Ajay Rastogi and Aniruddha Bose approved the submission made by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Jammu and Kashmir government. The court ordered that Qayoom’s Qayoom’s family should be allowed to receive him up from the prison.
However, the lawyer has been barred from visiting Jammu and Kashmir before August 7, or making any statements to the media.
While passing the order, the court said it had not analysed the merits of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court verdict upholding Qayoom’s detention. Qayoom had filed a plea in the Supreme Court against the Jammu and Kashmir High Court order.
The Jammu and Kashmir administration had informed the Supreme Court on July 27 that Qayoom’s detention would automatically end on August 6. But Qayoom’s lawyers, Dushyant Dave and Vrinda Grover, argued that every day of detention was an unconstitutional curtailment of the petitioner’s liberty.
‘Look to the future’
The Supreme Court also observed that the Kashmir Valley has been going through tough times, but urged the people of the region to...
