A tale of two detentions
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Summary
Within the span of 11 days this April, two High Courts ruled on the preventive detention of two sitting elected representatives and arrived at opposite ends of the constitutional spectrum. On April 16, 2026, a Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court led by Chief Justice Sheel Nagu dismissed Amritpal Singh's challenge to his third consecutive detention under the National Security Act, 1980, in a 15-page judgment that concluded the order was "immuned from the powers of judicial review.