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 ten FIRs cited by the detaining authority and found that four had resulted in acquittals, one was compromised, and the most recent FIR (No. 07/2025) involved allegations of demolishing construction pillars and snatching tools — conduct the Court held amounted at most to a breach of law and order, not a threat to 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 sustain the detention order, relying on the Supreme Court's distinction between 'law and order' and 'public order' as laid down in Banka Sneha Sheela v. State of Telangana (2021) 9 SCC 415. Accordingly, the Court found the detention order unsustainable in law.