The Supreme Court on Tuesday observed that detention cannot be forever and asked the Centre whether former J&K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti’s detention be extended beyond a year.
The remarks were made by a bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul during the hearing of Iltija Mufti’s plea challenging her mother’s and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader’s detention order under the Public Safety Act (PSA) and its subsequent extensions.
Justice Kaul queried Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who appeared for the Jammu and Kashmir government, “How long Mufti has been in detention, and what were the grounds?”
The bench specifically wanted to know if the detention could be extended beyond one year.
Mehta, justifying the detention, said it has been done on “public order grounds.”
Justice Kaul said the court wanted to know for how long such detention can be extended….