Question

Law of Preventive Detention can provide for detention of any person

• A. At any time during peace or war irrespective of the fact whether proclamation of emergency has or has not been made
• B. Only when a proclamation of internal emergency is made
• C. Only when a proclamation of national emergency is made
• D. Only when India is at war with any country

Hint:

Article 22 of the Constitution deals with protection against arrest and detention. It also provides specific safeguards relating to preventive detention, which may be exercised even without a proclamation of emergency.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is A

Step 1: Recall what preventive detention means.
Preventive detention allows the State to detain a person to prevent a future offence, rather than punishing a past one.
Step 2: Check when this power can be used.
Indian law allows preventive detention during ordinary peacetime as well as during war, and it does not depend on any emergency being proclaimed.
Step 3: Eliminate the other options.
Tying it only to internal emergency, national emergency, or wartime wrongly narrows a power that in fact applies at all times.
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