The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has ruled that preventive detention is undemocratic and violates the fundamental principle of Criminal Jurisprudence. “Preventive detention is undemocratic and repugnant to rule of law. It violates fundamental principle of Criminal Jurisprudence providing for presumption of innocence of accused till he is proved guilty on a fair and transparent trial. It not only runs contrary to Constitutional ethos but also bruises the Gandhian thought, that forms weft and warp of our socio-political fabric,” a bench of Justice Hasnain Massodi ruled. The bench made these…
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