1.   As is common before an election, police made preventive arrests in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and the western state of Maharashtra.

2.   Hundreds of preventive arrests were made.

3.   Ignoring a catastrophic criminal situation, parliament decided to cancel the law of preventive arrests.

4.   On Wednesday, police detained thousands of people in preventive arrests in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and the western state of Maharashtra to check violence during the voting.

5.   Some conservatives have seized on the violence as reason to toughen laws to provide for preventive arrest if authorities expect trouble from a mass event.

6.   The preventive arrests reaffirm the nature of the beast.

7.   Under a preventive arrest order, a suspect can be detained ahead of charges being brought.

8.   There were no casualties in the rocket attacks, which came despite the preventive arrests of hundreds of suspected Moslem militants.

9.   Police have also made a number of preventive arrests and more will be made, he said.