The High Court has dis­missed a con­sti­tu­tion­al chal­lenge brought by De­nesh Ma­haraj, who claimed his week-long de­ten­tion dur­ing the 2025 State of Emer­gency was un­law­ful.

Jus­tice Frank Seep­er­sad ruled that po­lice act­ed rea­son­ably and pro­por­tion­ate­ly when they is­sued a Fur­ther De­ten­tion Or­der af­ter of­fi­cers re­port­ed find­ing a firearm and nar­cotics at Ma­haraj’s home.

The State of Emer­gency was de­clared on Ju­ly 18, 2025, by Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo, fol­low­ing in­tel­li­gence about a co­or­di­nat­ed crim­i­nal net­work op­er­at­ing with­in the na­tion’s pris­ons. Au­thor­i­ties said the net­work was or­ches­trat­ing at­tacks against se­nior of­fi­cials and na­tion­al in­sti­tu­tions.