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Migrant children separated under Trump policy face renewed family breakupsFederal agents are separating children from their families again in the United States. This is happening despite legal settlements meant to...
Businessman spent 57 days in jail over aamchur & garam masala in airport luggage. Here’s what went horribly wrongA businessman was wrongly jailed for 57 days after airport security mistook aamchur and garam masala for narcotics. The Madhya Pradesh High...
J&K: Six booked under Public Safety Act in Sopore for allegedly disrupting law and orderSix persons have been booked under the stringent Public Safety Act in Sopore, Baramulla district. Authorities took this action following th...
Employee cleared of bribery charges but still denied back wages; HC ruling explainedA Mumbai employee acquitted of bribery charges was denied full back wages for his suspension period. The Bombay High Court ruled that acqui...
Operation Kavach 13.0 nets 222 arrests, 1,579 detentions in west districtDelhi Police's West District launched Operation Kavach 13.0, a 48-hour crackdown. The intensive drive led to over 200 arrests and numerous ...
Home Ministry issues Deportation Manual 2026 to states, sets SOPs for illegal migrant actionThe Ministry of Home Affairs has released the Deportation Manual 2026. This manual provides guidelines to states and Union Territories for ...
Govt revokes Sonam Wangchuk’s detention under National Security Act with immediate effectClimate activist Sonam Wangchuk's detention under the National Security Act has been revoked by the Centre with immediate effect. This deci...
Ladakh violence: SC adjourns to October 15 hearing on plea of Sonam Wangchuk's wife Gitanjali Angmo challenging his detentionThe Supreme Court has adjourned the hearing on a plea challenging Sonam Wangchuk's detention under the National Security Act to October 15....
Preventive detention extraordinary power of state that must be used sparingly: SCThe Supreme Court overturned a preventive detention order against a money lender in Kerala, emphasizing that such powers should be used spa...
Preventive detention based on capricious exercise of powers must be nipped in bud: SCThe Supreme Court overturned a Telangana High Court decision rejecting a detenu's appeal, emphasising that preventive detention should not ...
Preventive detention laws colonial legacy, must be used only in rarest of rare cases: Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court of India has said that preventive detention laws, a legacy of colonial rule, must be used only in exceptional cases and c...
Preventive detention is "serious invasion" of personal liberty, safeguards must be strictly adhered to: SCA bench of Chief Justice UU Lalit and Justices S Ravindra Bhat and JB Pardiwala made these observations as it quashed an order of preventiv...
Prophet Row: Suspended BJP MLA Raja Singh detained by Hyderabad Police again"Records disclose that out of 101 criminal cases registered against him, he was involved in 18 communal offenses. Mangalhat Police executed...
Govt constitutes 3-member advisory board of sitting HC judges to review NSA casesThe NSA empowers the government to detain a person if it considers the individual a threat to national security or to prevent him or her fr...
Telangana moots seizing passports of foreign returnees in quarantine amid Covid-19 outbreakAddressing the media at his camp office Pragathi Bhavan in Hyderabad on Tuesday evening after holding extensive meetings with the bureaucra...
AP's Jagan govt invokes NSA, Detention ActThe Andhra Pradesh government has invoked the Preventive Detention Act and the National Security Act, 1980, which together has given state ...
Those under preventive detention have right to vote: Election CommissionIn another letter, the EC has asked all state police chiefs to ensure that junior level police officials are not allowed to misuse power in...