Preventive Detention’s Constitutional Limits: What the J&K High Court Held in the Mehraj Malik Case
Saumya VermaAssistant Professor of Law,Soundarya Group of Institutions, Bangalore.saumyaverma@soundaryainstitutions.in The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court’s recent judgement quashing the detention of AAP MLA Mehraj Malik under the Public Safety Act, 1978 has provoked political scrutiny. More than mere procedural correction, the High Court rigorously enforced the constitutional safeguards built over seven decades to prevent […]