High Court set aside a preventive detention order under the Public Safety Act after finding that the District Magistrate ...

In a strong indictment of executive overreach, the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has held that the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978 was invoked against a young man ...

The power of preventive detention cannot be exercised mechanically. Nor can it be used as a substitute for the ordinary criminal process where prosecution under penal law would suffice.

The detention was on the basis of a dozen FIRs against the petitioner under grave offences like murder, and violations of the ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday underscored the necessity of strict adherence to constitutional and statutory safeguards in cases of preventive detention, pointing out that such a “draconian measure” ...

New Delhi: Preventive detention is an extraordinary power in the hands of the state that must be used sparingly, said the Supreme Court as it set aside an order to detain a man indulging in money ...

Public Safety Act (PSA) was invoked by authorities against a suspect with “non-seriousness” that beats even the sloppiness in issuing a “rou.