Supreme Court Urges Careful Scrutiny of Preventive Detention Laws to Protect Individual Rights and Limit Government Power.

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....Detention order - The preventive detention laws in India are a colonial legacy, and as such, are extremely powerful laws that have the ability to confer arbitrary power to the state. In such a circumstance, where there is a possibility of an unfettered discretion of power by the Government, this Court must analyze cases arising from such laws with extreme caution and excruciating detail, to ensure that there are checks and balances on the power of the Government - SC....