The Jammu and Kashmir High Court emphasised that before the grant of interim maintenance to an aggrieved woman under the Domestic Violence Act, there must be some evidence to persuade the court to grant such relief.
The tendency to detain "negative critics" of the government amounts to an abuse of the law, observed the Jammu and Kashmir High Court while quashing the detention of journalist Sajad Ahmad Dar, also known as Sajad Gul
The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh ruled that a failure by the detaining authority to supply the detenue with the material forming the basis for detention would render a preventive detention order illegal.
A Muslim who is a fundamentalist is merely someone who believes and steadfastly pursues the fundamentals of Islam, and cannot be equated with "separatist" or "extremist", the Jammu and Kashmir High Court observed.