In a significant judgment, the Bombay High Court held that Preventive Detention is a 'punishment without a trial' and thus, a detention proposal made by a sponsoring authority without prior ...
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court recently set aside a preventive detention order passed by the Thane police commissioner and was ...
Since Independence, a number of laws have been enacted that allow preventive detention which have been widely used by all ...
The Delhi High Court has refused to entertain a writ petition challenging preventive detention order under the Prevention of ...
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The Supreme Court ruled that preventive detention of a woman drug offender in Telangana was unlawful. It stated that mere ...
Observing that preventive detention can't be used just to prolong the custody of stubborn offenders, the SC has said it ...
The Supreme Court ruled that the state must prove a specific threat to public order, distinct from ordinary law and order ...
The Obama administration announced Thursday that it will rely on current law to hold terrorism suspects, instead of establishing a new and more permanent policy that would have institutionalized ...