The Court particularly highlighted a mistake committed by the DM in mentioning the date of a previous detention order passed against Mir. While that detention order was passed in 2022, the DM wrote ‘2024’ instead.
“The respondent No.2- District Magistrate Srinagar refers to the previous detention of the petitioner by drawing the reference to the order as follow: “Order No. DMS/PSA/151/2022 dated 15.11.2024”. If the respondent No.2- District Magistrate Srinagar is not in a position to re-read the draft of his grounds of detention to come across with a patent error of mention of date of previous detention order of the petitioner then the application of mind of the respondent…