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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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Punjab & Haryana HC directs no convicted/chargesheeted police officer be assigned public duty
The Court also pulled up an IAS officer for submitting incomplete information on affidavit and court directed notice of criminal case of perjury be issued to him
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The court held that the state cannot take advantage of filing one chargesheet and then extending time to file supplementary chargesheet
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The Court observed that the SIT may continue to investigate the cases against Shiv Kumar and assigned the special inquiry to a Sessions Judge in Faridabad
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All 10 accused persons were present in court on March 15 following the summons issued by it after taking cognisance of the chargesheet
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