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Jammu, Apr 28: Aam Aadmi Party legislator Mehraj Malik was released from Kathua jail on Tuesday following the quashing of his detention under the Public Safety Act by the Jammu and Kashmir High Court.
\nMalik said that now that he had been released, he would continue to raise and talk about the issues of the people.
\nSetting aside the detention order issued by the Doda district magistrate against Malik on September 8 last year, Justice Mohd Yousuf Wani directed authorities to \u201crelease the petitioner-detenu forthwith from his preventive detention\u201d.
\n\u201cMalik was released by jail authorities this morning after completion of all formalities,\u201d his lawyer and AAP spokesperson Appu Singh Slathia told reporters here.
\nAs the gates of Kathua jail opened this morning to release the AAP leader, scores of people shouted slogans in his favour, danced to the beats of dholaks and garlanded him with flowers.
\nAfter being released from jail, he said that he would continue to fight for the people.
\n\u201cI am now out of jail. I thank the judiciary for justice to me. I will continue to raise the issues and talk about people,\u201d he told reporters here.
\nThe High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh on Monday quashed the preventive detention of Aam Aadmi Party legislator Mehraj Malik under the Public Safety Act (PSA), holding that the order was legally unsustainable and based on \u201cnon-application of mind\u201d.
\nMalik, who is the AAP\u2019s Jammu and Kashmir unit president, was detained under the PSA in September for allegedly disturbing public order and was subsequently lodged in Kathua jail.
\nOn September 24, he filed a habeas corpus petition in the high court, challenging his detention and seeking Rs 5 crore as compensation.
\nOn February 23, the high court had reserved its order in the case.
\nIn his 87-page order, the judge said, \u201c\u2026the impugned detention order issued by district magistrate, Doda is quashed with direction to the respondents to release the petitioner\/detenu forthwith from his preventive detention in the instant case.\u201d The court underscored the distinction between \u2018law and order\u2019 and \u2018public order\u2019, observing that the material on record did not justify invoking preventive detention.
\nIt noted that the alleged activities of the detenu did not amount to \u201cpublic disorder\u201d and held that there was \u201cno live link or proximity between the alleged criminal activities and the need for passing of the impugned detention order\u201d.
\nOn the nature of cases cited against Malik, the court said they largely pertained to routine law and order issues, including election-related matters, adding that \u201calmost all the criminal cases pertain to normal law and order violations not justifying the detention under PSA\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jammu, Apr 28: Aam Aadmi Party legislator Mehraj Malik was released from Kathua jail on Tuesday following the quashing of his detention under the Public Safety Act by the Jammu and Kashmir High Court. 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