From Cow Slaughter to “Public Order”: Allahabad High Court’s Expanding Use of Preventive Detention

From Cow Slaughter to “Public Order”: Allahabad High Court’s expanding use of preventive detention

Two recent judgments of the Allahabad High Court, concerning one incident from Shamli and the other from Kalpi in Jalaun, offer an unusually rich window into how preventive detention under the National Security Act, 1980 is currently being judicially understood and justified. Both cases involve allegations of cow slaughter. Both result in the upholding of detention orders. But more importantly, both judgments articulate—and reinforce—a particula…

Anticipating Disorder, Curtailing Liberty: The Allahabad High Court’s expansive turn on preventive detention in cow slaughter cases

Two recent judgments of the Allahabad High Court, concerning one incident from Shamli and the other from Kalpi in Jalaun, offer an unusually rich window into how preventive detention under the National Security Act, 1980 is currently being judicially understood and justified. Both cases involve allegations of cow slaughter. Both result in the upholding of detention orders. But more importantly, both judgments articulate—and reinforce—a particula…