Latest Preventive Detention Act News & Updates

Chennai, May 20 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu government has ordered the immediate release of YouTuber and journalist A. Shankar, popularly known as ‘Savukku’ Shankar, after the State Advisory Board concluded that there was no sufficient cause to continue his preventive detention under the Tamil Nadu Preventive Detention Act, 1982. In an official order issued on Tuesday (May 19, 2026), the government directed authorities to release Shankar immediately, unless he was being held under any other law or…