Ruling on the sanctity of personal liberty and the limits of police power, the Chhattisgarh High Court has held that preventive arrest under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, must strictly conform to statutory safeguards and constitutional requirements. The Division Bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Ravindra Kumar Agrawal declared that an
