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SC: Preventive Detention Can't be Invoked for Ordinary Law And Order Situation(27.06.2022)
Supreme Court has held that the powers to be exercised under preventive detention law are exceptional powers which have been given to the government f.....
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Telangana HC: Preventive Detention Laws Cannot be Invoked by State as Easy Way Method(23.09.2020)
Telangana High Court has observed that preventive detention laws cannot be invoked as an easy way method bypassing the ordinary law and if the detenti.....
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SC Issues Notice on Challenge to Judgement Quashing Preventive Detention Under COFEPOSA Act(20.11.2020)
Supreme Court has issued notice in a special leave petition filed by the Union of India challenging a Kerala High Court judgment which quashed the pre.....
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J&K&L HC: Detaining Authority Must Show Compelling Reasons for Preventive Detention(23.08.2022)
Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has held that preventive detention orders can be passed even when a person is in police custody. However the c.....
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Guj. HC: Infraction of Law Not Done in Systematic Manner, Not Sufficient for Preventive Detention(29.08.2022)
Gujarat High Court has held that commission of infraction of law, not done in an organized or systematic manner, may not be sufficient for the detaini.....
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Telangana HC: Not for Individual to Decide How Law Enforcement Agency Should Act(07.01.2021)
Telangana High Court has held that it is not for the individual citizen to assess how the law enforcing agency should act but it is for that agency to.....
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Bombay HC Allows Agisilaos Demetriades' Plea to Quash Preventive Detention Under PIT-NDPS Act(19.09.2022)
Bombay High Court has quashed detention order under Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, issued against Ag.....
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J&K&L HC: State's Apprehension of Accused Getting Bail Can’t Lead to Preventive Detention(22.09.2022)
Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court while quashing a preventive detention order, has observed that offence of cheating and fraud, without having w.....
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Guj. HC: Court Can Interfere With Preventive Detention Order at Pre-Execution Stage(29.07.2022)
Gujarat High Court has held that preventive detention orders can be interfered with at pre-execution stage, i.e., before the person accused is detaine.....
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Guj. HC: Numerous Preventive Detention Orders Passed Day In & Day Out Relying On Stale Material(03.08.2022)
Gujarat High Court has expressed strong displeasure at the detaining authority under the Gujarat Prevention of Anti Social Activities Act, 1985 for pa.....
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Madras HC: Tamil Nadu Government Misusing Preventive Detention Laws(16.11.2022)
Madras High Court while observing that Tamil Nadu government is abusing preventive detention laws has stated that it will impose costs on the State wh.....
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SC: Preventive Detention Will Be Vitiated by Unexplained Delay in Passing Order(03.10.2022)
Supreme Court has held that unreasonable and unexplained delay in passing the order of detention from the date of the proposal can vitiate the detenti.....
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Special Reasons Needed to Pass Preventive Detention Order Against Persons Under Custody: MP HC(06.02.2019)
Madhya Pradesh High Court has quashed a detention order passed under the National Security Act (NSA) and held that special reasons are to be given for.....
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Supreme Court: Rhetorical Incantation of Word “Goonda” Not Sufficient to Invoke Preventive Detention(25.05.2017)
Supreme Court has held that rhetorical incantation of word “goonda” or “prejudicial to maintenance of public order” cannot be sufficient justification.....
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JKL HC: Ex-Facie Illegality Required to Challenge Preventive Detention Order at Pre-Execution Stage(16.12.2022)
Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has held that a preventive detention order can be challenged at the pre-execution stage, provided the petition.....
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Kerala High Court Lays Down Guidelines for Detention Under Preventive Detention Laws(27.04.2021)
Kerala High Court has prescribed safeguards against arbitrary and unjustified invasion of personal liberty in cases of preventive detention, stating t.....
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AP HC: Satisfaction of Detaining Authority Necessary for Preventive Detention as Per Triple Test(21.03.2023)
Andhra Pradesh High Court although the person in question was accused of serious offenses, if the necessary satisfaction as per the triple test i.e. s.....
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SC: Preventive Detention Law is a Colonial Legacy(12.04.2023)
Supreme Court while observing that preventive detention law is a colonial legacy, has held that every procedural rigidity must be followed in entirety.....
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Telangana HC Upholds Preventive Detention of Man Accused of Stalking, Voyeurism(19.07.2021)
Telangana High Court has upheld the detention order passed against a 22 year old accused of stalking women, voyeurism and allegedly inducing them to d.....
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Bombay HC: Preventive Detention Only if Acts Causing Disturbance to Public Order(28.06.2021)
Bombay High Court has held that a person cannot be placed under preventive detention as an 'easy substitute' to deal with ordinary law and order issue.....
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Ker HC: Unreasonable Delay by Detaining Authority in Seeking Additional Particulars Infringes FR(06.07.2023)
Kerala High Court has held that unreasonable delay on the part of the detaining authority in seeking additional particulars from the sponsoring author.....
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Telangana HC Upholds Preventive Detention of Man Accused of Duping Poor Farmers(06.07.2021)
Telangana High Court has upheld preventive detention of a man accused of duping farmers of their hard-earned agricultural produce, observing that whit.....
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JKL HC: Those Responsible for National Security Must be Sole Judges of What National Security Require(01.08.2023)
JKL HC has observed that Courts have limited scope to review the subjective satisfaction required by detaining authority to order preventive detention.....
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JKL HC: Fundamentalist Muslim Can’t be Equated With an Extremist or a Separatist(01.08.2023)
Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court while observing that the phrase “fundamentalist ideology” doesn’t necessarily mean that detenue possesses an ext.....
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Ker. HC: Preventive Detention Orders Not to be Issued as Punishment(08.08.2023)
Kerala High Court has observed that preventive detention law cannot be used as a punitive measure or as a substitute of criminal trial, and can be inv.....
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SC: Article 22(4)(a) Applies Only at Initial Stage of Passing of Preventive Detention Order(21.08.2023)
Supreme Court has held that 3 months period stipulated in Article 22(4)(a) of Constitution is only related to initial period of detention up to the st.....
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SC Explains Factors to be Considered While Deciding Legality of Preventive Detention(06.09.2023)
Supreme Court while observing that there has been growing trend of passing orders of preventive detention at the ‘drop of a hat’ without considering l.....
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Mad. HC: Notice Needn’t be Served to Victim in HCP by Accused Following Preventive Detention(28.09.2023)
Madras High Court while observing that Habeas Corpus petitions (HCPs) will not come within the sweep of 'connected proceedings' under Section 15-A(5) .....
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Jammu and Kashmir High Court Quashes Preventive Detention(27.09.2019)
Jammu and Kashmir High Court has quashed the preventive detention of Masood Ahmad Bhat dated January 22. The court said the detenu, a resident of Chid.....
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JKL HC: Detaining Govt. Critics Amounts to Abuse of Preventive Detention Law(20.11.2023)
Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has held that tendency on the part of the detaining authority to detain the critics of the policies or commiss.....
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Kerala HC Upholds Continued Preventive Detention of Accused Rabins Hameed Under COFEPOSA(09.11.2021)
Kerala High Court has upheld the continued preventive detention of prime accused in the gold smuggling case, Rabins K Hameed under the Conservation of.....
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Calcutta HC: Preventive Detention Must Not be Used as Added Tool to Curtail Judicial Decisions(12.11.2021)
Calcutta High Court has set aside an order of preventive detention passed under the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic S.....
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SC: Inability of State Police to Tackle Law & Order is no Excuse to Invoke Preventive Detention(26.03.2024)
Supreme Court has while setting aside the preventive detention of an alleged chain snatcher has stated that the inability on the part of the state's p.....
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