Supreme Court · 1988 INSC 356 · Decided 25 November 1988
Ayya Alias Ayub v. State of U.P. & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1988 INSC 356 · [1988] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 967
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 210/1988
- Decided
- 25 November 1988
- Bench
- RANGANATH MISRA, M.N. VENKATACHALIAH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 504, 427; Constitution Article 21
Headnote
B Constitution of India, 1950: Article 21-Personal liberty­ Greatest of human freedoms-Preventive detention laws-To be strictly construed-Procedural safeguards-Meticulous compliance to be insisted upon. National Security Act, 1980: Sections 3 and 5-detention order- Subjective satisfaction of gravity and mischief of 'public order' problem. c Statutory Interpretation: Preventive Detention laws to be strictly D construed-meticulous compliance with procedural safeguards to be insisted upon. The petitioner-detenu was involved in three incidents of offensive activity. In the first two
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