Preventive Detention and Human Rights

Contents: Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. Table of statutes in chronological order. Abbreviations used. 1. Introductory. 2. Preventive detention under Constitutional Law. 3. Preventive detention and judiciary. 4. Preventive detention--safeguard or violation of human rights--A jurisprudential aspect of balancing the interests. 5. Preventive detention and other statutes. 6. Concluding remarks. Table of cases. Bibliography. Index.

"Putting restraint on the freedom of wrong doing of one person is really securing the liberty of the intended victims. In the globally terroristic era the theme of this book is based on the very sound relationship between love and hate attitude between law abider and law violator towards detention laws.

India's commitment to human rights is reflected in the Constitution and the laws in its institutional mechanism of an independent judiciary, free press and fair democratic elections. Courts, as sentinel on the qui vive, are striking a balance between the changing needs of the society for peaceful transformation with orders and protection of the rights of the citizen. P.U.C.L. v. Union of India AIR 2004 SC 456 is an instance.

In view of the social/academic importance of the subject matter, the present work was undertaken. The present book traces the history of detention laws in depth, surveys the case law, analyses the two major Acts on detention laws e.g. NSA and COFEPOSA and of course offers many sound suggestions to uphold human rights of all." (jacket)