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Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA): It gave the State apparatus the right to arrest and detain a citizen for up to one year without due judicial process.
National Security Act : This act empowers the Central Government and State Governments to detain a person to prevent him/her from acting in any manner prejudicial to the security of India, the relations of India with foreign countries, the maintenance of public order, or the maintenance of supplies and services essential to the community it is necessary so to do. The act also gives power to the governments to detain a foreigner in a view to regulate his presence or expel from the country.
COFEPOSA (Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act): It is an Act of Parliament passed in 1974 during administration of Indira Gandhi, trying to retain foreign currency and prevent smuggling.
The objective of Preventive Detention is not to Punish but to prevent the detenu from doing something, which is prejudicial to the State. The satisfaction of the concerned authority is a subjective satisfaction in such a manner. It comes within any of the grounds specified like
Ahmed Noor Mohamad Bhatti V. State of Gujarat, AIR 2005:
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