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Records concerning detention intended to prevent anticipated conduct rather than punish an adjudicated offence, including National Security Act cases and related civil-liberties safeguards.

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Azad was put under NSA hours after bail; Khalid’s resurfaced speech frames preventive detention as a freedom-of-expression issue

Chandrashekhar Azad was granted bail in November 2017 and then placed under the National Security Act within hours, keeping him in preventive detention until September 2018. Umar Khalid’s resurfaced speech uses that sequence to argue that dissenters can be recast as security threats; the motive claim remains political interpretation, but a separate September 2026 Allahabad…