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Why it is critical to review preventive detention laws
By Abhinav Sekhri
PUBLISHED ON FEB 24, 2020 06:15 PM IST
These laws are prone to abuse, and go against the Republic’s basic principle to ‘zealously’ guard liberty
Madhya Pradesh government orders verification of MISA detainees
By Ranjan | Hindustan Times, Bhopal
UPDATED ON JAN 17, 2019 07:48 AM IST
The MISA gave police sweeping powers like taking people into preventive detention indefinitely to counter threats, including those to the national security in the 1970s. The law was used during the national emergency, which the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed from 1975 to 1977, to suppress dissent. It was repealed in 1977 when the Congress was voted out of power.