Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Dec 27: High Court today upheld the detention orders of two drug peddlers and dismissed their petitions by recording that they are devoid of any merit.
Justice M A Chowdhary upheld the detention of Barkat Ali Malik of Bundnara Narbal Badgam and Sartaj Ahmad Ganai who have been ordered to be detained under Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substance (NDPS) Act.
They were aggrieved of the detention orders and had filed the separate petitions seeking its quashment.
Justice Chowdharty while upholding the detention orders passed by the Divisional Commissioner Kashmir said the object is not to punish a man for having done something but to intercept before he does it and to prevent him from doing.
Referring the Supreme Court, Justice Chowdhary held that an order of detention is not a curative or reformative or punitive, but a preventive action, acknowledged object of which being to prevent anti-social and subversive elements from endangering the welfare of the country or security of the nation or from disturbing public tranquility or from indulging in anti-national activities or smuggling activities or from engaging in illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, etc., preventive detention is devised to afford protection to society.
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