Don’t invoke preventive detention laws at the drop of a hat, State Public Prosecutor tells DGP

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State Public Prosecutor Hasan Mohammed Jinnah has written to the Director General of Police (DGP) requesting him to instruct the Superintendents of Police (SPs) to not urge the invocation of the preventive detention laws astatine the driblet of a chapeau since astir of the detention orders get quashed by the Madras High Court.

In a connection addressed to the DGP, the SPP said, the Tamil Nadu Prevention of Dangerous Activites of Bootleggers, Cyber Law Offenders, Drug Offenders, Forest Offenders, Goondas, Immoral Traffic Offenders, Sand Offenders, Sexual Offenders, Slum Grabbers and Video Pirates Act of 1982 could beryllium invoked lone successful lawsuit of menace to nationalist order.

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However, of late, it has been recovered that the High Court had been quashing the preventive detention orders passed by the Collectors, connected the ground of the proposal made by constabulary officers, due to the fact that of gross misuse of the instrumentality successful trifling cases excessively without determination being immoderate menace to the nationalist astatine large, the SPP said.

Requesting the DGP to sensitise his subordinates to the quality betwixt maintaining instrumentality and bid and acts that impact nationalist order, the SPP said, the High Court has been repeatedly emphasising that the exceptional powerfulness of preventive detention indispensable beryllium exercised with prudence lone successful exceptional cases since it encroaches upon the liberty of an individual.