The court in that case had declared that the “drastic provisions” of preventive detention laws must not be used as a tool for ordinary enforcement of law and order. In the present case ...
The Gauhati High Court recently set aside detention and confirmation orders under NDPS Act against two detenues in judicial custody, on the ground that the orders lacked cogent materials based ...
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has ruled that preventive detention is an extraordinary measure that must be invoked in rare circumstances and justified with cogent, objective material. The ...
An official spokesperson for the district administration said that the detained persons were held under the preventive detention law because of “apprehensions” of disturbance of law and order.
PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court upheld a 34-year old Sabahan man's release from detention under the preventive law. A three-member bench led by Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat held that the ...