The Supreme Court bench finds it surprising that there is no practical meaning in Telangana state for a grant of bail of an accused as police could invoke provisions of the Prevention of Dangerous Activities Act to put a person under preventive detention offences for which he had been granted bail.
A.K Gopalan vs. State of Madras, 1950[1] Issue AK Gopalan was a Communist leader who was detained in the Madras Jail in 1950 under the Preventive Detention Law. By writ of Habeas Corpus pursuant to Article 32 of the Indian Constitution, he challenged his detention while arguing that Sections 7, 8, etc