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

The Solan police are invoking the provisions of the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic ...

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Observing that preventive detention can't be used just to prolong the custody of stubborn offenders, the SC has said it ...

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 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 ...

A first-person account of arrests, sedition charges and NSA detention in Manipur, revealing how free speech and dissent are ...

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court recently set aside a preventive detention order passed by the Thane police commissioner and was ...