Centre for Policy Alternatives and Others vs. Attorney General and Others – SC FR/91/2021-2023

Brief
In Centre for Policy Alternatives, Dr. Paikiasoothy Saravanamuttu, Sithara Shreen Abdul Saroor, and Ambika Satkunanathan v. Attorney General, Secretary of Defence, Inspector General of Police, and others, the Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of the Prevention of Terrorism (De-radicalization from holding violent extremist religious ideology) Regulations No. 1 of 2021. It was determined that these Regulations contravened fundamental rights guaranteed under Articles 10, 12(1), and 13 of the Constitution, particularly in relation to freedom of thought, equality before the law, and rights regarding arrest and presumption of innocence. The legal reasoning emphasized the ambiguous objectives of the Regulations, procedural deficiencies, potential for arbitrary enforcement, and