The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh recently observed that preventive detention under the Public Safety Act (PSA) cannot be invoked once the detain ...

Since Independence, a number of laws have been enacted that allow preventive detention which have been widely used by all ...

The Gauhati High Court Kohima Bench (GHCKB has once again quashed detention orders passed by the Nagaland Government under the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic ...

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday quashed the preventive detention of Gurnam Singh, alias Gama, a resident of Pucca ...

Emphasizing that preventive detention is an extraordinary measure that must be backed by clear, specific and proximate ...

In a bid to ensure that there is no delay in processing the preventive detention orders, the Bombay High Court recently ...

The Supreme Court has a great opportunity to prevent and stop manifold injustices caused to detenus under various preventive detention laws. I have in mind the preventive detention of Sonam Wangchuk.

The notification was issued by Department of Home Affairs, with Additional Chief Secretary Alok Shekhar signing the order on behalf of the Governor of Punjab.

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 ...

The Karnataka High Court held that the documents in English, which the detenue did not understand, prevented him from making an effective representation against the detention order.

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 ...