Preventive Detention

The Taliban's morality ministry has dismissed more than 280 members of the security force for failure to grow a beard and have detained more than 13,000 people in Afghanistan for "immoral acts" in the past year, officials said on Tuesday.

The Bombay High Court has urged authorities to pass preventive detention orders with extreme care and caution as a casual approach may deprive a person of his "most precious" fundamental right, his freedom and liberty.

Observing that preventive detention is a draconian measure and any such move based on a capricious or routine exercise of powers must be nipped in the bud, the Supreme Court has set aside a Telangana High Court order rejecting a detenu's appeal.

Mumbai-based Islamic preacher Mufti Salman Azhari was on Thursday taken under preventive detention by the Gujarat police soon after he was granted bail in a hate speech case registered against him in the state's Arvalli district.

The police said Renzu has seven FIRs registered against him in different police stations in Srinagar.

The Supreme Court criticised the Telangana police for using preventive detention law at the drop of a hat and said while the nation celebrates 'Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav' to commemorate 75 years of Independence.

The Supreme Court has ruled the constitutional scheme that a person cannot be kept in preventive detention beyond a period of three months is not applicable if an advisory board has confirmed there is sufficient cause for such detention.

An Indian-origin repeat sex offender was sentenced to 18 years of preventive detention and 12 strokes for the sexual assault of a maid in Singapore, a media report said on Tuesday.

Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij on Friday said 202 people have been arrested so far and 80 taken into preventive detention in connection with the communal clashes in Nuh.

Laws on preventive detention are necessarily harsh and curtail the personal liberty of an individual who is kept behind bars without trial, and so the procedure prescribed should be strictly adhered to, the Supreme Court said.

Police and surveillance teams deployed by the Election Commission have so far seized cash and jewellery worth Rs 10.49 crore, while more than 91,000 persons have been placed under preventive detention in the run-up to the Assembly polls in Gujarat, a

The Haryana Police on Sunday said it has secured detention orders for a notorious drug peddler under a law which allows preventive custody of an accused without bail for a year.

Telangana BJP MLA T Raja Singh was arrested again today, under the stringent Preventive Detention Act, hours after releasing a video about "communal atmosphere" despite an embargo by court. He pointedly targeted minister KT Rama Rao in his new video.

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has issued an all- time high of 18 orders in the last about three months under the PITNDPS Act, a rarely invoked stringent law that allows preventive detention of habitual drugs-crime offenders for up to two years.

The Kerala High Court on Friday set aside the preventive detention imposed on Swapna Suresh, prime accused in the sensational gold smuggling case, under the COFEPOSA (Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act).

The Taliban's morality ministry has dismissed more than 280 members of the security force for failure to grow a beard and have detained more than 13,000 people in Afghanistan for "immoral acts" in the past year, officials said on Tuesday.

The Bombay High Court has urged authorities to pass preventive detention orders with extreme care and caution as a casual approach may deprive a person of his "most precious" fundamental right, his freedom and liberty.

Observing that preventive detention is a draconian measure and any such move based on a capricious or routine exercise of powers must be nipped in the bud, the Supreme Court has set aside a Telangana High Court order rejecting a detenu's appeal.

Mumbai-based Islamic preacher Mufti Salman Azhari was on Thursday taken under preventive detention by the Gujarat police soon after he was granted bail in a hate speech case registered against him in the state's Arvalli district.

The police said Renzu has seven FIRs registered against him in different police stations in Srinagar.

The Supreme Court criticised the Telangana police for using preventive detention law at the drop of a hat and said while the nation celebrates 'Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav' to commemorate 75 years of Independence.

The Supreme Court has ruled the constitutional scheme that a person cannot be kept in preventive detention beyond a period of three months is not applicable if an advisory board has confirmed there is sufficient cause for such detention.

An Indian-origin repeat sex offender was sentenced to 18 years of preventive detention and 12 strokes for the sexual assault of a maid in Singapore, a media report said on Tuesday.

Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij on Friday said 202 people have been arrested so far and 80 taken into preventive detention in connection with the communal clashes in Nuh.

Laws on preventive detention are necessarily harsh and curtail the personal liberty of an individual who is kept behind bars without trial, and so the procedure prescribed should be strictly adhered to, the Supreme Court said.

Police and surveillance teams deployed by the Election Commission have so far seized cash and jewellery worth Rs 10.49 crore, while more than 91,000 persons have been placed under preventive detention in the run-up to the Assembly polls in Gujarat, a

The Haryana Police on Sunday said it has secured detention orders for a notorious drug peddler under a law which allows preventive custody of an accused without bail for a year.

Telangana BJP MLA T Raja Singh was arrested again today, under the stringent Preventive Detention Act, hours after releasing a video about "communal atmosphere" despite an embargo by court. He pointedly targeted minister KT Rama Rao in his new video.

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has issued an all- time high of 18 orders in the last about three months under the PITNDPS Act, a rarely invoked stringent law that allows preventive detention of habitual drugs-crime offenders for up to two years.

The Kerala High Court on Friday set aside the preventive detention imposed on Swapna Suresh, prime accused in the sensational gold smuggling case, under the COFEPOSA (Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act).