The petitioner Madan Lal challenged his preventive detention order dated 11.09.2025 passed by the District Magistrate, Udhampur under the Jammu & Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978, on grounds including that the FIRs relied upon related to personal disputes with no nexus to public order, that grounds of detention were not furnished in a language he understood, and that his representation was not forwarded to the Advisory Board in time. The Jammu & Kashmir High Court examined the detention record and found that the most recent FIR (No. 07/2025) alleged conduct—demolishing construction pillars and snatching tools—that amounted at most to a breach of law and order, not a disturbance of public order within the meaning of Section 8(3)(b) of the Act. The Court further held that the remaining FIRs were stale and remote and could not form a valid basis for the detention order. Relying on the Supreme Court's ruling in Banka Sneha Sheela v. State of Telangana (2021) 9 SCC 415, the Court distinguished between 'law and order' and 'public order', holding that the petitioner's alleged activities did not cross the threshold required for lawful preventive detention. Accordingly, the Court found the detention order unsustainable in law.