{"id":21821,"date":"2025-03-10T05:03:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T23:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21821"},"modified":"2025-04-06T15:34:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T10:04:21","slug":"preventive-detention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/preventive-detention\/","title":{"rendered":"Preventive Detention"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Preventive Detention Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Supreme Court recently quashed a preventive detention order by Nagaland&#8217;s home department, emphasizing that detaining authorities must independently apply their minds.<\/p>\n<h2>About Preventive Detention<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Preventive detention refers to the <strong>detention of an individual without a trial or conviction <\/strong>by a court.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The primary objective of preventive detention is not to punish an individual for a past offence but to <strong>prevent them from committing an offence in the future.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Preventive detention laws are enacted by governments <strong>to ensure public safety and maintain social order.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Constitutional Provisions and Safeguards<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Article 22 <\/strong>of the Indian Constitution <strong>grants protection to individuals who are arrested or detained.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has <strong>two parts<\/strong>\u2014the <strong>first part <\/strong>deals with <strong>cases of ordinary law,<\/strong> which includes situations where an individual is detained as part of a criminal investigation.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>second part deals with cases of preventive detention law, <\/strong>which pertains to the detention of individuals without a trial or conviction.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Article 22(4) <\/strong>states that <strong>no law providing for preventive detention shall authorise<\/strong> the <strong>detention <\/strong>of a person <strong>for a longer period than three months unless an Advisory Board reports <\/strong>sufficient cause for extended detention.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>detainee <\/strong>is <strong>entitled to know the grounds of his detention. <\/strong>The <strong>state<\/strong>, however, <strong>may refuse to divulge the grounds<\/strong> of detention if it is <strong>in the public interest<\/strong> to do so.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The detaining authorities must give the detainee earliest opportunities for making representation against the detention.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Who can Make Laws under Preventive Detention?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Parliament <\/strong>has the exclusive power to enact a law for preventive detention <strong>for reasons connected with defence, foreign affairs, or security of India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Both Parliament and State Legislature<\/strong> have powers to enact a law for preventive detention for reasons related to the <strong>maintenance of public order<\/strong> or the<strong> maintenance of supplies or services<\/strong> essential to the community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Laws that Provide for Preventive Detention<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In India, various laws pr<strong>ovide for preventive detention, including the National Security Act (NSA) <\/strong>of 1980, the <strong>Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) <\/strong>of 1967, and state-specific laws like the Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA) and the <strong>Public Safety Acts (PSA) in certain states<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Under these laws, authorities can detain an individual for a specific period, typically up to 12 months, without presenting formal charges or conducting a trial.<\/li>\n<li>The detention order is issued by a designated authority or government official and is subject to periodic review by an advisory board.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Preventive Detention FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What is the concept of preventive detention?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Preventive detention refers to the detention of an individual without a trial or conviction by a court.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What is the objective of preventive detention?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The primary objective of preventive detention is not to punish an individual for a past offence but to prevent them from committing an offence in the future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is the maximum period of preventive detention?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The detention of a person cannot exceed three months unless an advisory board reports sufficient cause for extended detention.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/preventive-detention-draconian-authorities-must-apply-mind-supreme-court\/articleshow\/118769327.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preventive Detention refers to the detention of an individual without a trial or conviction by a court<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}