[ High Courts ]
The Srinagar bench dismissed a habeas corpus petition challenging a Public Safety Act detention order, rejecting arguments on mechanical application of mind, non-supply of material, and the constitutional validity of PSA adaptations post-reorganisation.
2026-05-18 · 9 min read
[ Supreme Court ]
A bench of Justices Manoj Misra and Manmohan quashed a bootlegger’s preventive detention, holding that stereotypical grounds without arrest attempts or public order breach cannot sustain detention.
2026-05-18 · 6 min read
[ The Republic ]
The textbooks treat 1977 as the closing of a parenthesis. Read the preventive-detention statute book, the internet-shutdown logs, and Part IVA of the Constitution, and the parenthesis is still open.
2026-05-18 · 22 min read
[ Dissent ]
Half a century after ADM Jabalpur, Justice H.R. Khanna's solitary dissent reads less like a counterargument and more like the only judgment that survived. A reconstruction of what he refused to concede, and why his colleagues refused with him.
2026-05-10 · 8 min read