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 High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh recently quashed a preventive detention order passed in April 2024 against a ...

The Supreme Court has a great opportunity to prevent and stop manifold injustices caused to detenus under various preventive detention laws. I have in mind the preventive detention of Sonam Wangchuk.

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

The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has criticised the District Magistrate (DM) Srinagar’s casual approach in ordering preventive detention of a 36 ...

The court said that since the man, Faisal Javed Shaikh, was already in custody in a Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS) Act case when the detention order was passed against him last ...

Assaulting a boy to dissuade him from continuing a love relationship which is objected by the girl's family is an ...

Mumbai, Feb 21: Observing that the detention order passed by the Joint Secretary (PIT-NDPS), Government of India, against Dongri resident Faisal Shaikh was unwarranted and a misuse of law by the ...

The central government informed the Supreme Court today that it does not want to release climate activist Sonam Wangchuk on health grounds as suggested by the court earlier.

The Obama administration announced Thursday that it will rely on current law to hold terrorism suspects, instead of establishing a new and more permanent policy that would have institutionalized ...