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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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SC refuses to disclose probe report into ‘conspiracy’ against Judiciary
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Calcutta HC releases Nepali undertrial after 41 years in prison
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MP High Court grants pre-arrest bail to school principal charged under anti-conversion law
The applicant refuted the allegations and said that it was a vexatious case as the complainant was terminated from her job at the school
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