Overview
- In a December 30 order, the bench granted YouTuber Varaaki 12 weeks’ interim bail with conditions, including a Rs 1,00,000 bond, cooperation with investigators, and a travel restriction.
- The court called preventive detention laws draconian and said they cannot be used to settle political scores or silence dissenting voices.
- Finding insufficient grounds for detention, the bench noted that a key case arose from a landlord–tenant dispute and that several adverse cases had been flagged as foisted and transferred to CB‑CID.
- Reiterating that only genuine threats to public order justify preventive detention, the judges stressed that even serious allegations or routine law‑and‑order issues do not meet that threshold.
- Warning of systemic misuse, the court cited delays that blunt habeas corpus relief, directed the State to file its counter within 12 weeks, and cautioned officials against routine approval of detention orders.