19-year-old FIR cannot be the basis of a preventive detention order; J&K and Ladakh HC quashes detention order
“In a democracy governed by the rule of law, the power to detain a person without trial, for security of the State or maintenance of public order must be strictly construed. But where individual liberty comes into conflict with the security of the State or public order, then the liberty of the individual must give way to the larger interests of the nation.”