The danger of an unchecked pre-crime framework
Articles 22(3) – (7), which constitutionalised preventive detention, are the Bermuda Triangle in India’s constitutional Atlantic where fundamental rights such as liberty, equality and due process vanish without a trace. In June this year, while setting aside a preventive detention order under the Kerala Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, 2007 (KAAPA) in Dhanya M. vs State…