HC quashes preventive detention after authorities delay woman’s representations for months

NEW DELHI: The Punjab and Haryana high court has quashed the preventive detention of a woman after finding that authorities took around 45 days to inform her of her right to make a representation to the central government and then delayed deciding her representations by nearly three and five months. The court held that the delays violated the constitutional safeguards under Article 22(5).

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