The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has emphasised that when bail is granted not on the merits of the case but due to procedural defaults under Section 167 of the Criminal Procedure Code or for urgent temporary purposes, such grounds might not favor the detainee. Underscoring the importance of carefully considering the grounds for bail in preventive detention …
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court recently emphasised on its limited scope to look into the manner in which the subjective satisfaction is arrived at by the detaining authority to order preventive detention of a person. The Petitioner in the instant case was taken into preventive custody in terms of the order of detention issued under Section 8 of the …
