Supreme Court · 1974 INSC 211 · Decided 16 October 1974
Adhir Naia v. The State of West Bengal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1974 INSC 211 · [1975] 2 S.C.R. 449
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 254/1974
- Decided
- 16 October 1974
- Bench
- Y.V. CHANDRACHUD, R.S. SARKARIA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32
Headnote
449 Conat/tution of India, Art. 32-Habeas Corpus-Detention based on 1ingl1 isolated incident-Sufficiency of grounds whether justiciable-Whether a court of appeal (f no r~asonable person can arrive at conclusion-Apprehension regarding f11/11Te arising but of past conduct. The petitioner was a particular day he along with his associates broke open a railway wagon loailed with foodgrains. Th~ petitioner in Writ Petition filed in this Court under Art. 32 contended that he was detained on the basis of a single isolated incident and that ho reasonable person could possibly come to the
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