Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 404 · Decided 17 September 2012
Baba Tek Singh v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 404 · [2012] 8 S.C.R. 724
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 376/2012
- Decided
- 17 September 2012
- Bench
- AFTAB ALAM, RANJANA PRAKASH DESAI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32
Headnote
Constitution of India, 1950 - Article 32 - Writ petition - Maintainability - Petitioner filing petition under Article 226 of c Constitution alleging threat to his life and personal liberty - Withdrawing the petition feeling that the proceeding before High Court were not effective - Subsequently 32 for the same remedies - Held: The petition under Article 32 is not maintainable - The action of the 0 petitioner in withdrawing the Petition pending before High Court simply to file the petition under Article 32 is not acceptable - The petitioner is wrong in his belief that proceedings before
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