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 ten FIRs cited by the detaining authority and found that the most recent FIR (No. 07/2025) involved allegations of demolishing construction pillars and snatching tools, which at most amounted to a breach of law and order and did not fall within activities adversely affecting public order under 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 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 unsustainable in law.