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From Cow Slaughter to “Public Order”: Allahabad High Court’s expanding use of preventive detention
Through detailed reliance on fear, timing, intelligence inputs, and administrative response, the Court stretches “public order” to justify preventive detention—raising difficult questions about liberty, evidence, and constitutional limits
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