Orders of Preventive Detention: Judicial Review "Progress far from Consisting in Change, Depends on Retentiveness. Those who cannot Remember the past are Condemned to Repeat It". - George Santayana

Abstract

Preventive detention is an administrative action. Preventive detention the law is framed in such a manner that it gives
broader discretion to the administrative authority leaving a very little scope for judicial review. But with the passage of
time to keep check on the administrative discretion the courts have developed theories. In this article the researcher has
highlighted the judicial pronouncements on the administrative actions of preventive detention.