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- 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 ...02 Apr, 2026, 12.31 AM IST
- Sonam Wangchuk's detention: SC adjourns wife's plea to December 8The Supreme Court has postponed a hearing on a plea challenging climate activist Sonam Wangchuk's detention. His wife argues his arrest und...24 Nov, 2025, 05.32 PM IST
- Goa: Collectors allowed to invoke NSA for 3 months, govt cites 'prevailing circumstances'Goa's district collectors can now detain individuals under the National Security Act for three months. This move follows recent incidents i...07 Nov, 2025, 12.01 PM IST
- Bombay HC quashes illegal detention, directs Maharashtra to pay Rs 2 lakh to Jalgaon residentThe Bombay High Court has cancelled the preventive detention of Dikshant Sapkale. The court called the detention an illegal and careless ex...07 Oct, 2025, 01.28 PM IST
- Pakistan reintroduces Anti-Terrorism Act with preventive detention powers for military, civil forcesPakistan's National Assembly has passed the Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Bill, 2024, reinstating a provision allowing military and civil arme...14 Aug, 2025, 10.55 AM IST
- 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...07 Jun, 2025, 07.19 PM IST
- 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 ...23 Mar, 2024, 01.30 PM IST
- 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...10 Apr, 2023, 10.21 PM IST
- Powers under preventive detention law 'exceptional', cannot be exercised in routine manner: SCA vacation bench of Justices C T Ravikumar and Sudhanshu Dhulia noted that although according to the authority, the detenus were involved i...25 Jun, 2022, 07.54 PM IST
- 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...19 Mar, 2022, 04.14 PM IST
- Mehbooba Mufti, Omar Abdullah and two others booked under PSAA magistrate accompanied by police served the order to Mufti at the bungalow where she has been detained, the officials said. Abdullah was ...07 Feb, 2020, 12.11 PM IST
- 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 ...18 Jan, 2020, 08.50 AM IST
- Maharashtra to invoke stringent law against illegal sand mining, black marketingThe draft ordinance provides government enforcement agencies powers to make preventive detention of those involved in black marketing of es...02 Sep, 2015, 10.19 AM IST
- Maharashtra cabinet clears proposal for booking black marketing of commodities under MPDA ActThe ordinance says that an Advisory Board would be constituted comprising a sitting High Court Judge and two retired judges.01 Sep, 2015, 09.24 PM IST
- 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...21 Sep, 2014, 10.02 AM IST
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