Preventive detention means

(A) detention for interrogation
(B) detention after interrogation
(C) detention without interrogation
(D) detention for cognisable offence.

Correct Answer : detention without interrogation
Question Asked : SSC Section Officer (Audit) Exam 2003
Explanation : Preventive detention is an imprisonment that is putatively justified for non-punitive purposes. In contrast to this, under preventive detention the government can imprison a person for some time without a criminal charge. It means that if the government feels that a person being at liberty can be a threat to the law and order or the unity and integrity of the nation, it can detain or arrest that person to prevent him from doing this possible harm.
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