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 were stale or had ended in acquittal or compromise, 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 most recent FIR (No. 07/2025) and found that the alleged conduct—demolishing construction pillars and abusing labourers—amounted at most to a breach of law and order, not an activity 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 sustain 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 found the detention unsustainable in law.