The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has held that merely because a person is facing prosecution in several criminal cases does not denude the competent authority of its power to invoke preventive detention under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978.The Court observed that preventive detention is a preventive, and not punitive, measure, and can validly be resorted to where...
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