Preventive detention: The Preventive Detention Act

The Preventive Detention Act, of 1950 talks about the detention of a person on the grounds of defence, foreign affairs or the security of the state. Under Section 151 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) preventive detention is police action taken on grounds of suspicion that some wrong actions may be done by the person concerned. Preventive detention means the detention of a person without trial and conviction by a court for the purpose of preventing him from committing an offence in the future. Learn about the grounds, safeguards, relative laws and issues of preventive detention in India, and how the Supreme Court has interpreted and regulated it. Preventive detention is detention of person by State without trial and conviction by the court and merely on the suspicion. No law providing for preventive detention shall authorize the detention of a person for a longer period than three months except for the recommendations of advisory board. Preventive detention means to detain a person so that to prevent that person from commenting on any possible crime or in other words preventive detention is an action taken by the administration ...