The petitioner Madan Lal challenged his preventive detention order dated 11.09.2025 passed by the District Magistrate, Udhampur under the Jammu and 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 amounting at most to a breach of law and order, not activities adversely affecting public order under Section 8(3)(b) of the Act. The remaining FIRs were held to be stale and remote, and therefore incapable of sustaining the detention order. Relying on the Supreme Court's distinction between 'law and order' and 'public order' as articulated in Banka Sneha Sheela v. State of Telangana (2021) 9 SCC 415, the Court concluded that the detention was not legally justified.