Summary
- The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh ruled that possessing books alleged to be anti-national does not justify preventive detention.
- Justice Moksha Khajuria Kazmi emphasized that an academic's mere possession of such books does not equate to criminality.
- The court addressed concerns over "dispiriting titles" but maintained that this alone is insufficient for detention.
- This ruling could set a precedent for how possession of literature is treated in matters of national security.
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