Pertinence of Preventive Detention with Changing Dynamics
Keywords:
Preventive detention, rights of people, article 22, national security laws, human rights and civil libertiesAbstract
Preventive Detention is a tool, although a rare one, that was formed to benefit society by removing people who seemed to be a danger to society and is kind of based on the saying, “Prevention is better than cure.” With our research paper, we have tried to analyze if the law is trying to protect or cause more violations of the rights of people and the protection provided in Article 22. The Constitution framers, while drafting the Constitution, had in mind national safety, but it has resulted in the debate over whether it is necessary to create national security laws in India and how seriously those laws may affect human rights and civil liberties, which has heated up in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., as well as the attack on the Indian Parliament on December 13, 2001.
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