Explore West Bengal's new preventive detention law aimed at public safety, its implications, and similarities to existing statutes.
BR Ambedkar was a votary of preventive detention. However, he did warn that ‘if hereafter things go wrong, we will have ...
The Bill empowers the government to detain a person if it believes detention is necessary to stop future anti-social activity ...
Key features include preventive detention, goonda externment, enhanced searches and riot damage recovery provision ...
The two bills mirror similar controversial laws in Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, said the officials ...
Two Bills passed by the West Bengal Assembly on Monday have sparked a debate that goes beyond the state. Together, the West ...
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has held that merely because a person is facing prosecution in several criminal ...