Chandigarh, Nov. 5 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has quashed preventive detention order of the state government of a Karnal man, accused in ganja seizure cases but detained for possessing heroin.

Preventive detention without trial in the country unless NDPS law is invoked in the case of hardened criminals to prevent large scale drugs trafficking.

The bench of justice Suvir Sehgal while observing that the authorities had proceeded while passing preventive detention order on the assumption that recovery effected from the petitioner is heroin, whereas there is no case registered against the petitioner on any such allegation.

"The material on the record is not germane to the past conduct of the petitioner and cannot form the foundat...