Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that the state is not under an obligation to disclose under the Right to Information Act the grounds of detention of a person under a preventive detention law before his arrest.

A three-judge bench of justices Altamas Kabir, Gyan Sudha Misra and J Chelameshwar said a detune under the preventive detention laws like NSA, COFEPOSA etc is not required to be treated in the same manner as a person arrested in connection with the commission of an alleged offence.

The apex court gave the ruling while dismissing a bunch of applications seeking disclosure of information under the RTI Act for detunes at the pre-detention stage.