on mere suspicion, runs into thousands by now. Evidently, in keeping them in custody for weeks and months the State Government has not been seriously hampered by the absence of legal powers of preventive detention. Very few prosecutions have been launched and, at the same time, not many of those arrested have been let off. What legal and administrative artifices have been used to make this possible, one does not know.
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