Supreme Court · 1951 INSC 61 · Decided 19 December 1951
Bhagat Singh v. The State
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1951 INSC 61 · [1952] 1 S.C.R. 371
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 38/1950
- Decided
- 19 December 1951
- Bench
- MEHR CHAND MAHAJAN, SIR SYED FAZL ALI, N. CHANDRASEKHARA AIYAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 307, 307J; CrPC
Headnote
- 4 ,:~.-- S.C.R, SUPREME COURT REPORTS 371 has been referred, reports that the detention is justifi- ed; the Government should determine what the period of detention should be and not before. The fixing of the period of detention in the initial order itself in the present case was, therefore, is no sufficient cause for the deten- tion, the person concerned would be released forthwith, the direction in the order dated 30th July, 1951, that the petitioner should be detained till 31st March, 1952, could be· ignored as mere surplusage. We cannot accept that view. It is obvious
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