The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has quashed the Public Safety Act detention of Saddam Husain, holding that preventive detention cannot be invoked in substitution of ordinary legal ...

LIMA, PeruLIMA, Peru — A Peruvian judge has ordered 18 months of preventative detention for an Iranian and two Peruvian men while they are investigated for allegedly attempting to kill two Israelis ...

The Madras High Court has censured Tamil Nadu Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) chief A Arun IPS for having habitually issued reckless prevent ...

The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the immediate release of a 24-year-old law student, who had been in preventive detention in Bhopal’s Central Jail for nearly a year under the National Security Act.

The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has quashed a preventive detention order passed under the Public Safety Act, ...

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Referred to informally as a “scientist” by his peers in a nod to his technical prowess, Rahul Shedge, a post-graduate in ...

President Nixon’s suggestion that “preventive detention” would be one good remedy for crime in the District of Columbia met with sharply divided reaction on Capitol Hill. West Virginia’s Democratic ...

The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has held that allegations relating to a person's involvement in enforcing hartal ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday said no person could be held under “preventive detention” without the accused being provided with the grounds of arrest and access to make representation to the higher ...

The Karnataka High Court Thursday set aside a preventive detention order against a man, holding that the authorities had ...