Bail granted cannot be grounds to invoke preventive detention law, says Jammu and Kashmir HC

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· Sep 15, 2024 · 12:20 pm

Jammu and Kashmir: ‘Security of state’ is valid grounds to detain person in Union territory, says HC

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· Jul 09, 2024 · 02:37 pm

What the high court’s strictures say about abuse of Jammu and Kashmir’s preventive detention law

Safwat Zargar

· Jul 01, 2024 · 07:30 am

Preventive detention law can’t be invoked at ‘the drop of a hat’, SC tells Telangana government

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· Sep 05, 2023 · 01:55 pm

Indian police often use illegal detentions to stifle dissent. Could a Delhi HC order change that?

Vineet Bhalla

· Jul 18, 2023 · 06:30 am

Gauhati HC ask Assam to pay compensation to man detained for eight months without confirmation order

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· May 16, 2023 · 07:12 pm

Preventive detention laws are a colonial legacy, can give government arbitrary powers: Supreme Court

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· Apr 11, 2023 · 04:44 pm

Preventive detention invalid if order is unreasonably delayed, says Supreme Court

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· Oct 01, 2022 · 11:30 am

Rearrested after getting bail: How the law is abused to keep dissidents in jail

Umang Poddar

· Mar 18, 2022 · 06:30 am

Preventive detention: Ex-bureaucrats flag amendment that has not been notified for 43 years

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· Oct 17, 2021 · 03:44 pm

Why a lawyer in Kashmir is asking for a constitutional amendment from 1979 to be enforced

Safwat Zargar

· Jun 04, 2021 · 09:00 am

Who detained Kashmiri politician Shah Faesal and under what law?

Ipsita Chakravarty

· Aug 16, 2019 · 06:30 am

Jammu and Kashmir: 2,729 youngsters arrested in 2017, 129 booked under Public Safety Act

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· Jan 05, 2018 · 01:17 pm

Kamlesh Tiwari's arrest for anti-Prophet remark shows why India needs to revisit colonial-era laws

Alok Prasanna Kumar

· Oct 14, 2016 · 06:30 pm